United Kingdom Britten, The Rape of Lucretia: Soloists, English Touring Opera / Gerry Cornelius (conductor), Hackney Empire, London, 4.10.2025. (AK)
ETO’s The Rape of Lucretia is a top quality, deeply moving theatrical and musical experience
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Anna Netrebko impresses in Oliver Mears’s visceral, powerful and gripping new Tosca at Covent Garden
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)
A vividly direct performance and production of Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris by Blackheath Halls Opera
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)
ENO’s Cinderella made for an enjoyable enough evening despite shortcomings
United Kingdom Rossini, La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Soloists, Dancers, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Yi-Chen Lin (conductor). London Coliseum, 27.9.2025. (MB)
Bampton Classical Opera’s Salieri serves up a landlady’s lyrical tonic
United Kingdom Salieri, La locandiera (The Landlady): Soloists, CHROMA / Andrew Griffiths (conductor). Sinfonia Smith Square, London, 16.9.2025. (MB)
Natalya Romaniw shows us why she is the Tosca of the moment at WNO
United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera / Gergely Madaras (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 14.9.2025. (LJ)
Saffron Opera Group redeem themselves with a compelling end to Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer
United Kingdom Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Saffron Opera Group Chorus (inc. Saffron Walden Choral Society, chorus masters: James Davey and Quintin Beer), Saffron Opera Group Orchestra / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, 14.9.2025. (JPr)
Intense, unnerving, and compelling: Shostakovich celebrated at the Proms with a stellar Lady Macbeth of Mtensk
United Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [26] – Shostakovich, The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District: Soloists, BBC Singers, Chorus of English National Opera (chorus master: Matthew Quinn), Brass Section of the Orchestra of English National Opera, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra /John Storgårds (conductor), Ruth Knight (stage director). Royal Albert Hall, London. 1.9.2025. (CSa)
