Verdi
La Traviata – Opera House
Ellen Kent’s current revival of her original production relishes its traditional 19th Century roots and delivers a truly musical feast…
Don Carlos – Operaen, Det KGL Teater
There are different versions of Verdi’s masterpiece about love and duty with director Davide Livermore’s new production drawing on the…
A Night at the Opera: Flat Pack Music Gala Concert – Chester Cathedral
Chester Cathedral is many things to many people: a vibrant community of worship, an ancient abbey, an archaeological treasure, a…
Scottish Opera: La traviata – Festival Theatre
It is an under-reported fact that the 2001 Baz Luhrman jukebox musical Moulin Rouge is an adaptation of 1853 Verdi…
Un ballo in maschera – Oper Köln at StaatenHaus
Director Jan Philipp Gloger presents one of Verdi’s lesser performed works which contains the usual emotional and dramatic power, creating…
La Forza del Destino – Met Opera Live in HD
It has been some thirty years since there was a new production of this opera at the Met and twenty…
La Traviata – Manchester Opera House
Ellen Kent’s production of this much-loved opera is aided by its sumptuous set and costume design as it relishes its…
Opera North: Falstaff – The Lowry
The rainbow-striped curtain rises on Opera North’s sustainable take on Verdi’s final masterpiece, a comic opera drawn from Shakespeare in…
La Traviata (2022) – Royal Opera House
Director Bárbara Lluch’s current revival of Richard Eyre’s 1994 production delivers a truly musical feast that not only embraces and…
Don Carlos – The Metropolitan Opera, New York
The Met Opera’s original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty is in fact an…