UK Opera – Page 12 – Seen and Heard International

Guildhall’s oddly compelling, well-performed vision of Dido and Aeneas

11/06/2025 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Purcell, Dido and Aeneas: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama / James Henshaw (conductor). Milton Court Theatre, London, 9.6.2025. (MB)

Karima El Demerdasch (Dido) © David Monteith Hodge

Bedlam reigns at Longborough’s sparkling The Barber of Seville

01/08/202610/06/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [2] – Rossini, The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Elaine Kelly (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 8.6.2025. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s *The Barber of Seville* © Clive Barda

Garsington’s delightful production of L’elisir d’amore captures its warm-hearted Italian spirit and comedy

09/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [2] – Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Chloe Rooke (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 7.6.2025. (CR)

[l-r] Oleksiy Palchykov (Nemorino), Madison Leonard (Adina) and Carles Pachon (Belcore) © Julian Guidera

Lots to love about Opera North’s Così fan tutte at Nevill Holt

08/06/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Chris Hopkins (conductor). Nevill Holt, Leicestershire, 6.6.2025. (CP)

[l-r] Egor Zhuravskii as Ferrando, William Dazeley as Don Alfonso and Seán Boylan as Guglielmo © Tristram Kenton

COG’s La straniera emerges as a fascinating piece with Helena Dix magnificent in the title role

06/06/202504/06/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Bellini, La straniera (concert performance): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Chelsea Opera Group / Stephen Barlow (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 1.6.2025. (CC)

Chelsea Opera Group’s *La straniera* at London’s Cadogan Hall © HD

Garsington’s The Queen of Spades will surely be one of the best things to be seen this summer

02/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [1] – Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Soloists, Garsington Opera Youth Company, Garsington Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 31.5.2025. (CR)

Robert Hayward (Count Tomsky) and Roderick Williams (Prince Yeletsky) © Julian Guidera

Vaudeville comes to Longborough in a UK premiere of Wahnfried: the birth of the Wagner cult

29/05/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Avner Dorman, Wahnfried: the birth of the Wagner cult: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Justin Brown (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire. 27.5.2025. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s *Wahnfried: the birth of the Wagner cult* © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Barrie Kosky’s minimally staged, flawed Royal Opera Walküre, is great music theatre nonetheless

16/05/202515/05/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, Walküre: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Peter Jones) from the Royal Opera House, London, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 14.5.2025. (JPr)

Soloman Howard (Hunding), Natalya Romaniw (Sieglinde) and Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Siegmund) © RBO/Monika Rittershaus

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