UK Opera – Seen and Heard International

A great evening: Opera Holland Park’s intense Lucia di Lammermoor is a must-see

25/07/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Opera Holland Park [1] – Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Soloists and Chorus of Opera Holland Park, City of London Sinfonia / Michael Papadopoulos (conductor). Opera Holland Park, London, 22.7.2025. (CC)

S Jennifer France (Lucia Ashton) and Tabitha Reynolds (Ghost) in *Lucia di Lammermoor* © Ali Wright

Bampton Classical Opera’s spirited La locandíera is a remarkable tribute to the bicentenary of Salieri’s death

21/07/202520/07/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Antonio Salieri, La locandíera (The Landlady): Soloists, Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Andrew Griffiths (conductor). The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire, 18.7.2025. (CP)

Osian Wyn Bowen (The Baron) and Rosalind Dobson (Lena) in Bampton Classical Opera’s *The Landlady* © Anthony Hall

A blistering, unforgettable Salome from Grigorian, Volle, Pappano and the LSO

15/07/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Richard Strauss, Salome (concert performance): Soloists, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 13.7.2025. (JPr)

Asmik Grigorian singing Salome © Andy Paradise

In Eugene Onegin Wild Arts’s greatest strength is that it acts as a collective not a collection of starry individuals

16/07/202515/07/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin (arr. Orlando Jopling, sung in English translation by Siofra Dromgoole): Soloists, The Wild Arts Ensemble / Otis Lineham (conductor). (conductor). Thaxted Parish Church, Essex, 12.7.2025. (CC)

Xavier Hetherington (Lensky) and Timothy Nelson (Onegin) © Alan Titmuss

Salieri’s The School for Jealousy is offered with flair and improvisatory flourish in Oxford

08/07/202507/07/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Salieri, La scuola de’ gelosi: Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 2.7.2025. (CR)

Garsington offers a vision of hope as well as freedom in a musically urgent account of Fidelio

30/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [4] – Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, & Garsington Opera Chorus, The English Concert / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 27.6.2025. (CR)

Robert Murray (Florestan) and Sally Matthews (Leonore) © Julian Guidera

Longborough’s Péllias et Mélisande uses audience imagination to tell the story and the music is terrific!

30/06/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [3] – Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande: Soloists, Longborough Festival Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 28.6.2025. (CP)

Julian Close (Arkel) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Garsington’s edgy recasting of Handel’s Rodelinda as a Gothic horror fantasy

20/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [3] – Handel, Rodelinda: Soloists, The English Concert / Peter Whelan (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 19.6.2025. (CR)

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