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The love which dare not speak its name beams brightly at Wilton’s Music Hall

18/06/202220/03/2022 by Jack Buckley

United Kingdom Gilbert and Sullivan, Sasha Regan’s All-Male H.M.S. Pinafore: Preview performance. Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 16.3.2022. (JB)

David McKechnie (Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., centre) (c) Mark Senior

Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House: an outstanding night of theatre

18/06/202218/03/2022 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Britten, Peter Grimes: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 17.3.2022. (MB)

Townspeople and fisherfolk of the Borough (c) Yasuko Kageyama

Shades of the present haunt Russia’s past as parodied by Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel

29/03/202507/03/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, The Golden Cockerel: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera / Gerry Cornelius (conductor). Hackney Empire. London, 5.3.2022. (CC)

Alys Mererid Roberts (Cockerel), Robert Lewis (Astrologer) and Grant Doyle (King Dodon) © Richard Hubert Smith

English Touring Opera’s enjoyable revival of La bohème

10/05/202201/03/2022 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera / Dionysis Grammenos (conductor). Hackney Empire Theatre, London, 26.2.2022. (MB)

Francesca Chiejina and Luciano Botelho (c) Richard Hubert Smith

Phantasmagoria as Man is pitted against Nature in ENO’s new The Cunning Little Vixen

10/05/202224/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen (Přiíhody lišky Bystroušky): Soloists, Children’s Chorus, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Martyn Brabbins (conductor). London Coliseum, 22.2.2022. (CC)

English National Opera’s *The Cunning Little Vixen* © Clive Barda

Stefano Montanari and his remarkable cast elevate this Rigoletto revival to a superlative level

10/05/202223/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Verdi Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Stefano Montanari (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 21.2.2022. (CC)

Luca Salsi (Rigoletto) and Francesco Demuro (Duke of Mantua) © Helen Murray

Così fan tutte is another wonderful ensemble achievement for Saffron Opera Group

10/05/202215/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Mozart, Così fan tutte (concert performance): Chorus (chorus master: James Davey) and Orchestra of Saffron Opera Group / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex, 13.2.2022. (JPr)

Jessica Cale (Fiordiligi), Liam Bonthrone (Ferrando), Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (Dorabella) and Marcus Farnsworth (Guglielmo) (c) Roger King

Gheorghiu, Pop, Volle and Armiliato are the stars of a superb revival of The Royal Opera’s Tosca

26/01/202410/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 8.2.2022. (JPr)

Angela Gheorghiu (Tosca) and Stefan Pop (Cavaradossi) © Clive Barda

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