UK Opera – Page 8 – Seen and Heard International

Annilese Miskimmon’s superbly executed Dead Man Walking for English National Opera

03/11/202503/11/2025 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Jake Heggie, Dead Man Walking: Soloists, Finchley Children’s Music Group, Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera / Kerem Hasan (conductor), London Coliseum, 1.11.2025. (AK)

Michael Mayes (Joseph De Rocher) and Christine Rice (Sister Helen Prejean) © Manuel Harlan

Britten’s Albert Herring provided impressive entertainment in ENO’s first foray to Salford’s Lowry

24/11/202526/10/2025 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Britten, Albert Herring: Soloists, members of the Orchestra of English National Opera / Daniel Cohen (conductor). Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, 22.10.2025. (MC)

Carolyn Dobbin (Florence Pike) and Emma Bell (Lady Billows) © Genevieve Girling

A rare ‘pared-down’ opportunity from ENO to see and hear Britten’s Albert Herring

24/11/202516/10/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Britten, Albert Herring: Soloists, Orchestra of English National Opera / Daniel Cohen (conductor). London Coliseum, 13.10.2025. (CC)

English National Opera’s *Albert Herring* © Genevieve Girling

A fine concert performance of Carmen in Dublin

15/10/202515/10/2025 by Robert Beattie

Ireland Bizet, Carmen (concert performance): Soloists, Chorus Ireland (chorus director: David Young) and Cór na nÓg (chorus director: Mary Amond O’Brien), National Symphony Orchestra / Jessica Cottis (conductor). National Concert Hall, Dublin, 10.10.2025. (RB)

Soloists, choruses, conductor and the National Symphony Orchestra performing *Carmen* in Dublin @ Caoimhe O’Carroll

Fourth revival of Calixto Bieito’s Carmen at the ENO lacks passion and has had its day

10/10/202510/10/2025 by John Rhodes

United Kingdom Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Children’s Chorus, Chorus (chorus director: Matthew Quinn) and Orchestra of English National Opera / Clelia Cafiero (conductor). London Coliseum, 8.10.2025. (JR)

Calixto Bieito’s *Carmen* – Niamh O’Sullivan (front centre, Carmen) © Ellie Kurttz

ETO’s The Rape of Lucretia is a top quality, deeply moving theatrical and musical experience

11/10/202509/10/2025 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Britten, The Rape of Lucretia: Soloists, English Touring Opera / Gerry Cornelius (conductor), Hackney Empire, London, 4.10.2025. (AK)

[l-r] Jenny Stafford (Female Chorus), Jane Monari (Bianca), Clare Presland (Lucretia) and Rosie Lomas (Lucia) © Richard Hubert Smith

Anna Netrebko impresses in Oliver Mears’s visceral, powerful and gripping new Tosca at Covent Garden

20/11/202502/10/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Jakub Hrůša (conductor). Filmed (directed for the screen by Peter Jones) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in September 2025 and broadcast to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 1.10.2025. (JPr)

Freddie De Tommaso (Cavaradossi) and Anna Netrebko (Tosca) © Marc Brenner

A vividly direct performance and production of Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris by Blackheath Halls Opera

01/10/2025 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Gluck, Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigénie en Tauride): Soloists, Students from Greenvale School and Charlton Park Academy, Blackheath Halls Chorus and Youth Company, Blackheath Halls Orchestra / Chris Stark (conductor). Blackheath Halls, London, 28.9.2025. (MB)

Francesca Chiejina (centre, Iphigénie) and the cast of *Iphigenia in Tauris* © Julian Guidera

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