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Carmen Review: Glorious singing in a new production of Bizet’s Carmen at the Royal Opera H | Theatre | Entertainment

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Bizet’s Carmen has good claims to be the most popular and most often produced of all operas, which makes it difficult for a director to come up with anything both new and acceptable but Damiano Michieletto has achieved an intriguing balance between traditional ideas and new insights in the new Royal Opera House production at … Read more

Madama Butterfly review – The Royal Opera’s Butterfly soars to new heights | Theatre | Entertainment

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A stunning performance from Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role made an outstanding impression at the opening night of Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen this tale of a young Japanese girl and the callous American naval lieutenant who weds … Read more

Giant review – Modern opera about grave-robbing and medicine grips powerfully | Theatre | Entertainment

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The British composer and sound designer Sarah Angliss received her inspiration for this new opera from a visit to the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons where she saw the huge skeleton of the man known as The Irish Giant. The museum started as a private collection of the esteemed anatomist and surgeon … Read more

The Flying Dutchman Review – Powerful Wagnerian drama at the Royal Opera House | Theatre | Entertainment

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Richard Wagner was still in his late-20s when he achieved his first great operatic hit with The Flying Dutchman, but both the plot and the music already showed the grandeur, the ambition and the power he was to achieve in his later highly-acclaimed works. The opera is based on a legend of a ghost ship, … Read more

Carmen review: Carmen Breaks the Rules | Theatre | Entertainment

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Bieito has always looked for ways to challenge orthodoxy and present a new vision of an opera, but a good director’s job is to add touches to an opera that adds to it or delivers its message more strikingly rather than changing it. The first noticeable innovation in this production is that it is not … Read more

We have MS and danced ballet at the Royal Opera House | Theatre | Entertainment

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MS Society dancers Carly and Ekow with choreographer Bim (Image: ROH ) It was a day of cheers and tears as a group from the MS Society performed in the Paul Hamlyn Hall at the Royal Opera House, the culmination of a 12-week dance residency with The Royal Ballet. Each had their own personal journey … Read more