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36 days ago

Strauss, Dvořák and Glazunov album review – packs a dramatic punch

Bamberger Symphoniker/Hrůša
(Accentus Music)

Jakub Hrůša’s absorbing treatment gives life to three late-19th-century works reflecting on the notion of heroism

This absorbing release on the Leipzig-based…

53 days ago

85 days ago

Tosca review – punchy new Puccini rises above the ‘Shame on you’ Russian soprano protests

Royal Opera House, London
Outrage over the casting of Anna Netrebko didn’t make it to the inside of the auditorium – where roars of approval greeted this high-stakes game of blood-spattered conflict d…

3 months ago

Opera tells story of German journalist who posed as migrant worker for two years

Docu-opera explores encounters and ethics of Günter Wallraff’s undercover work in 1980s, which he now describes as an existential necessity

Few people have done more to change the way postwar Germany …

4 months ago

UK’s Royal Ballet and Opera withdraws Tosca production in Tel Aviv

Show scheduled for next year pulled after 182 members of UK company sign letter criticising RBO’s stance on Gaza

The Royal Ballet and Opera has pulled its 2026 production run of Tosca at the Israeli O…

‘It’s a high-wire act. Every choice matters’: Danielle de Niese takes on opera’s most notorious femme fatale

The Australian-born soprano’s version of Carmen is contemporary and emotionally complex: a factory worker in present-day Spain, entangled in a toxic relationship

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