Hattie Butterworth

3 weeks ago | gramophone.co.uk | Hattie Butterworth

Farm Street Church, a Catholic Jesuit church in Mayfair, is hosting a choral concert on Saturday commemorating those in the LGBTQ+ community who have lost their lives for being in same-sex and queer relationships, this Saturday 5 April. Entitled 'A Requiem for Those Who Had None', the concert will interweave music and stories, performed by LGBTQ ensemble The Fourth Choir.

1 month ago | gramophone.co.uk | Hattie Butterworth

The cast of We Are The Lucky Ones | Credit: De Nationale Opera, Koen BroosPhilip Venables and Ted Huffman know how to pack a punch. These concept kings of opera have wowed the world with chamber opera Denis and Katya back in 2019, then The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions which began in Aix in 2023. This project for Amsterdam’s Opera Forward Festival is their largest yet, their first ‘orchestral opera’ with a score that witnesses Venables at his grandest and most dense.

1 month ago | gramophone.co.uk | Hattie Butterworth

Angieszka Rehlis as Azucena in Il trovatore | Credit: Camilla GreenwellStairs, in your multitudes. Adele Thomas’s Trovatore is a workout that stuns the stage in the first half and leaves much to be desired in the second. Verdi’s score grabs us from the start and Thomas sails us through the first act choruses with gripping drama. Four acrobatic dancers create a animalistic creepy backdrop to the drama, cartwheeling through the Anvil’s chorus and bringing some dark humor.

2 months ago | gramophone.co.uk | Hattie Butterworth

Hattie Butterworth Welsh National Opera has today announced the productions in its 2025/2026 season, a season which marks the Company’s 80th anniversary. The year includes a new production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman during the spring season by Welsh director Jack Furness, and a new production of Puccini’s Tosca, by Edward Dick originally seen at Opera North in 2018, during the Autumn Season. Welsh-Ukranian soprano Natalya Romaniw returns to sing the title role of Tosca.

2 months ago | gramophone.co.uk | Hattie Butterworth

The cast of Festen at the Royal Opera | Photo: Marc Brenner‘It’s gone quiet – that’s because everyone’s enjoying their food!’ We can all agree that the general British public can be grating. But rarely is this irritation projected onto an opera stage and set to music with such vivid exposition. Soup flavours are requested, small talk commences and we greet each other often with blinding falsity.