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An impressive season-opener from Opera Holland Park’s Flying Dutchman

1 week ago | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

It seems entirely appropriate that Holland Park Opera’s first venture into Richard Wagner should be Der fliegende Holländer. And where better in London to experience its storm-tossed drama within an open-sided auditorium where you felt every gust of wind, even the canvas roof billowing like sails from the Dutchman’s ghostly ship. Directed by Julia Burbach, this new production steers a canny path between Gothic fantasy and reality.
Glyndebourne’s musically gripping Parsifal

2 weeks ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

Directors have a habit of interfering with composers’ intentions in their efforts to draw out new perspectives. That’s no bad thing when a novel approach creates insightful correspondences with the original conception. But the opening night of Glyndebourne’s first ever presentation of Parsifal, long dreamed-of by founder John Christie, drew a mixed reception, with some audible disapproval at the curtain calls.
A choral and orchestral extravaganza from The Lighthouse, Poole

2 weeks ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

Hats off to David Hill for overseeing the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s last hurrah of the season with three career-defining works that changed the musical landscape in both Britain and the States.
Samantha Clarke returns to The Grange Festival next month as Violetta Valéry in a new production of Verdi’s La traviata.

2 weeks ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

David Truslove talks to Samantha about her developing careerDT I believe you describe yourself as Australian/British. Where were you born and where do you consider home? SCMy parents are Zimbabwean and were living in the UK when I was born, so I originally come from Surrey. We returned to Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa and then emigrated to Australia when I was 9. I consider Australia home.
Nouvelle production d’Il Trittico à l’Opéra Bastille, Paris

3 weeks ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

There are certain stagings when good fortune shines on casting decisions and produces an operatic miracle. Such is the case with this new production of Puccini’s Il Trittico given at Opéra Bastille, which benefits from an international team in the shape of Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian, Italian conductor Carlo Rizzi and German stage director Christof Loy. Together, they have shaped a truly memorable trio of performances.
Houston Grand Opera Announces New Partnership with London Symphony Orchestra

3 weeks ago | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Company launches its own label and will collaborate with LSO Live on new recordings of HGO performances HOUSTON—May 14, 2025—Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is proud to announce a new partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), uniting the newly launched Houston Grand Opera label with pioneering label LSO Live.
Accomplished Soprano Cecilia Violetta López Named General Director and CEO of Opera Las Vegas

3 weeks ago | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Las Vegas, NV – (May 6, 2025) Opera Las Vegas (OLV) announced today that it has hired celebrated Mexican-American Soprano Cecilia “Ceci” Violetta López as General Director and CEO effective July 1, 2025. Having performed her first professional role in the 2012 Opera Las Vegas production of Don Giovanni, Ms. López returns to Southern Nevada as only the fifth General Director in the company’s 27-year history.
Telemann’s witty social comedy Pimpinone receives a blunter feminist interpretation by Royal Ballet and Opera

1 month ago | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Telemann’s Pimpinone (1725) is perhaps second only to Pergolesi’s La serva padrona (whose plot it pre-empts) as one of the best-known examples of that curiosity of 18th century musical theatre, the intermezzo. As this description indicates, it was a work which was designed to be performed – really as two or three episodes, not continuously – between the parts of another opera.
Some standout performances put a shine on this intermittently engaging Die Walküre

1 month ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

This second instalment of Barry Kosky’s Ring Cycle develops the fractured relationships partially glimpsed in Das Rheingold unveiled at the Royal Opera House 18 months ago. With his new staging comes both a return of the Ash Tree, reminding us of his preoccupation with what he sees as an ‘environmental apocalypse’, and a mute Earth Goddess (here a frail but dignified Illona Linthwaite), who appears naked on stage before the first stirrings of the Prelude to Die Walküre.
Sparkling performances from Hurn Court Opera’s La Cenerentola

1 month ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

Bitter-sweet comedy of manners, happy-ever-after romance, or a serious moral tale, Rossini’s 1817 stage work is open to various interpretative slants, some even sinisterly dark. But, however you pigeon-hole this rags to riches fantasy, Hurn Court Opera’s newly minted La Cenerentola made abundantly clear it’s a comic fairy tale, though not entirely without gravitas.