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A Very Different ‘Tristan’ Provides Real, if Un-Wagnerian Pleasures: WNO’s Le Vin herbé

07/03/201703/03/2017 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Frank Martin, Le Vin herbé: (Company Production Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Musicians of Welsh National Opera / James Southall (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 16.2.2017. (GPu)

vinherbe — Caitlin Hulcup (Iseult the Fair) & Tom Randle (Tristan) (c) Robert Workman

English National Opera Gives The Winter’s Tale a Baptism of Which All Should be Proud

06/03/201701/03/2017 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Wigglesworth – The Winter’s Tale (world premiere): Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: James Henshaw) and Orchestra of the English National Opera / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). London Coliseum, London, 27.2.2017. (MB)

Opera North Unleashes a ‘Floodtide of Fantasy’ in New Production of Cinderella

24/02/201721/02/2017 by John Leeman

United Kingdom Rossini, Cinderella: Soloists and Chorus of Opera North / Wynn Davies (conductor), Grand Theatre, Leeds. 16.2.2017. (JL)

Amy J Payne as Tisbe, Henry Waddington as Don Magnifico, and Sky Ingram as Clorinda. Photo credit: Alistair Muir. — Amy J Payne as Tisbe, Henry Waddington as Don Magnifico, & Sky Ingram as Clorinda
(c) Alistair Muir

A Witty and Intelligent Production finds Contemporary Relevance in Semele

22/02/201715/02/2017 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Handel, Semele: Mid Wales Opera, Soloists and Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music / Nicholas Cleobury, Richard Burton Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 8.2. 2017. (GPu)

Ellen Williams (Semele); photograph by Mathew Williams Ellis — Ellen Williams as Semele) (c) Mathew Williams Ellis

Ellen Kent’s La bohème Deserves Warm Audience Applause

22/02/201714/02/2017 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists and cast of Chisinau National Opera, Members of the Orchestra of the National Opera & Ballet Theatre of Moldova ‘Maria Biesu’ and National Philharmonic of Moldova ‘Serghei Lunchevici’ / Vasyl Vasylenko (conductor). Grand Theatre, Blackpool, Lancashire. 13.2.2017. (MC)

boheme-1 — Poster image for Ellen Kent’s *La bohème*

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A Very Different ‘Tristan’ Provides Real, if Un-Wagnerian Pleasures: WNO’s Le Vin herbé

English National Opera Gives The Winter’s Tale a Baptism of Which All Should be Proud

Opera North Unleashes a ‘Floodtide of Fantasy’ in New Production of Cinderella

A Witty and Intelligent Production finds Contemporary Relevance in Semele

Ellen Kent’s La bohème Deserves Warm Audience Applause

English National Opera and Cast Impress in Mike Leigh’s Production of The Pirates of Penzance

WNO’s La bohème is all the More Powerful for its Traditional Approach

The Royal Opera Revives David McVicar’s Production of Adriana Lecouvreur