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The Queen of Spades at Lyric Opera of Chicago

The Queen of Spades, the current production at Lyric Opera of Chicago succeeds admirably in portraying such aspects of the human psyche if obsession is key to understanding the dramatic and musical fabric of Tchaikovsky’s opera.

WNO revival of Carmen in Cardiff

Unveiled by Welsh nationwide Opera autumn that is last this Carmen has become in its very first revival. Initial director Jo Davies has abandoned image postcard Spain and sun-drenched vistas for pictures of grey, metropolitan squalor someplace in modern-day Latin America.

Lise Davidsen ’rescues’ Tobias Kratzer’s Fidelio during the Royal Opera home

Making Fidelio – Beethoven’s paean to freedom, constancy and fidelity – an emblem regarding the republican character for the French Revolution is unproblematic, despite the opera’s censor-driven setting that is‘Spanish.

A sunny, insouciant Così from English Touring Opera

Beach balls and parasols. Strolls across the strand. Cocktails in the terrace. Laura Attridge’s brand brand new manufacturing of CosГ¬ fan tutte which opened English Touring Opera’s 2020 springtime tour in the Hackney Empire, is a sunny, insouciant and frequently downright silly event. Fortsätt läsa →