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

United KingdomUnited 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

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

United KingdomUnited 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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Philharmonia Orchestra’s Saint-Saëns suffers from organ failure

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ortiz, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns: Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Olivier Latry (organ), Philharmonia Orchestra / Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, 25.9.2025. (AV-E)

The Philharmonia conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali © Philharmonia Orchestra/Mark Allan

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