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Duke Bluebeard’s Castle semi-staged but calamity strikes ENO as soprano withdraws at the eleventh hour

23/03/2024 by John Rhodes

United Kingdom Bartók, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: Soloists, Orchestra of the English National Opera / Lidiya Yankovskaya (conductor). London Coliseum, 21.3.2024. (JR)

Crispin Lord (Judith acting), John Relyea (Bluebeard) and ENO Chorus © Nirah Sanghani

RCS’s outstanding Idomeneo in Glasgow reveals the great potential their singers, chorus and orchestra

22/03/2024 by Gregor Tassie

United Kingdom Mozart, Idomeneo: Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / John Butt (conductor). New Atheneum Theatre, Glasgow, 20.3.2024. (GT)

*Idomeneo* at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland © Robbie McFadzean

RNCM’s opera students can be justly proud of lavishing care and attention on Rossini’s The Silken Ladder

20/03/2024 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Rossini, La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder): Soloists and Orchestra of the RNCM / Wyn Davies (conductor). Theatre, RNCM, Manchester, 17.4.2023. (MC)

RNCM’s *La scala di seta*: Dormont (Henry Strutt) and Blansac (Adam Jarman) © Craig Fuller

A further revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s Madama Butterfly is an exhilarating operatic evening

16/03/2024 by Margarida Mota-Bull

United Kingdom Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Kevin John Edusei (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 14.3.2024. (MM-B)

Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s *Madama Butterfly* © Marc Brenner

Our attitudes to death are dissected by Sarah Angliss’ Giant ‘event’ at the Linbury Theatre

16/03/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Sarah Angliss, Giant: Soloists, Stephen Hiscock (percussion), Reiko Ichise (viola da gamba), Olwen Foulkes (recorder), Nicola Hicks (viola), Tiaho Soares Silva, Amalia Young (violins) / Ben Smith (conductor/harpsichord). Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 12.3.2024. (CC)

Jonathan Gunthorpe (John Hunter) and Steven Beard (Howison) © Camilla Greenwell

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Duke Bluebeard’s Castle semi-staged but calamity strikes ENO as soprano withdraws at the eleventh hour

RCS’s outstanding Idomeneo in Glasgow reveals the great potential their singers, chorus and orchestra

RNCM’s opera students can be justly proud of lavishing care and attention on Rossini’s The Silken Ladder

A further revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s Madama Butterfly is an exhilarating operatic evening

Our attitudes to death are dissected by Sarah Angliss’ Giant ‘event’ at the Linbury Theatre

A fine revival of David Alden’s thought-provoking Jenůfa at English National Opera

WNO’s bold and innovative Death in Venice explores its ambiguous depths (and heights)

ETO’s insightful, entertaining and high-quality Rake is not to be missed