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<img data-reference=“image” data-document-id=“cms/api/amp/image/BB1pcWjY”><p>Magic and madness dominate Orlando. <a class=“ck-custom-link” href=“https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/handel-masterpiece-jephtha-roh-oliver-mears/”>Handel’s</a> masterly 1733 opera was the first of three, followed by Alcina and Ariodante, whose stories he derived from Ariosto’s epic 16th-century poem Orlando furioso; in this one, our eponymous hero is one of Charlemagne’s greatest knights, yet he has bec…
over 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk
There is little innovation in this new production – but that’s no bad thing when the leads are as strong as this
over 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk
This biting new production wrenches the piece into the present, displaying a struggle for women’s autonomy in the face of male oppression
over 1 year ago
yahoo.com
Cheating at the Olympics is not the most inspiring subject for an opera to be performed just before our Paris games this July. In the poet Metastasio’s...
over 1 year ago
yahoo.com
The Spanish summer heat beats down under a battery of lights, while the scene revolves slowly around the police station. The childrens’ games are manic, but ...
over 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk
Boldly sung in the original Hungarian, this showed ingenuity in the face of adversity, but maybe semi-staging the work was a flawed approach
over 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk
Tensions between musicians and the executive have long been at the heart of the opera house’s miseries
about 2 years ago
telegraph.co.uk
David Pountney has cunningly threaded together Purcell’s music to create a stylish ecological fable – but the result doesn’t quite cohere
about 2 years ago
telegraph.co.uk
It’s the most vivid of early operas – but not much goes well in this curiously inert, unmoving staging
about 2 years ago
telegraph.co.uk
For the first in his new four-year Ring cycle, Barrie Kosky pares back the sumptuousness to create a more elemental Wagnerian spectacle
about 2 years ago
telegraph.co.uk
The reprieve is a tacit admission that the funding body’s approach to opera was seriously wrong
over 2 years ago