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Opera

September 2024
  • Beethoven for Three – Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma at the 2024 Proms.

    ‘Thrilling, unforgettable … there is nothing else like it!’: readers on their Proms highlights

    As 2024’s festival comes to a close, readers tell us about their favourite performances of the eight-week season that saw 90 concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and beyond, all live on BBC Radio 3
  • Mahogany Opera’s production of Rolf Hind’s Sky in a Small Cage at the Barbican, London.

    Sky in a Small Cage review – beauty and bafflement in opera inspired by Sufi mystic Rumi

    Rolf Hind’s opera about the 13th-century poet is mostly hard to follow, but countertenor James Hall and baritone Yannis François come into their own when the drama is clearer

    • Albert Herring review – Britten’s postwar comic opera sits surprisingly well in the 21st century

    • The week in classical: The Marriage of Figaro; Proms 53, 54, 55 & 56 – review

    • The Marriage of Figaro review – revival sparkles with young cast

August 2024
  • Jo Davies who has quit as Opera Australia artistic director

    Australian arts in focus
    Opera Australia artistic director Jo Davies quits nine months into the job due to ‘differences of opinion’

  • Wolfgang Rihm Portrait Session<br>VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 29: Wolfgang Rihm poses for a portrait session at Ca' Giustinan on Grand Canal on September 29, 2010 in Venice, Italy. The German composer and director was awarded today with La Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (Photo by Barbara Zanon/Getty Images)

    Wolfgang Rihm obituary

  • Heartbreakingly engaging as Britten’s Billy Budd … Huw Montague Rendall.

    Huw Montague Rendall: Contemplation album review – young opera star justifies the buzz

  • From left: Marie Cayeux, Annie Fassea, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Galina Averina and Felix Kemp in Die Fledermaus.

    Die Fledermaus review – Strauss’s perennial classic is slickly realigned

  • Alexander Goehr: composer who brought European avant garde sensibilities to stuffy 50s Britain

    Andrew Clements

  • The week in classical: Prom 37: Britten’s War Requiem; The Turn of the Screw – review

  • Benjamin Luxon obituary

  • Der Vampyr review – feminist reboot has plenty of blood, camp and tears

  • Oedipus Rex review – an unmissable and inclusive update of Stravinsky

  • The Rape of Lucretia review – British Youth Opera goes subterranean for a rip-roaring Britten

  • The week in classical: Carmen; Yuja Wang; Leonore Piano Trio; Tristan und Isolde – review

  • Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds review – the best new work of the season?

  • April Cantelo obituary

  • Carmen review: magnetic performances ramp up the showstoppers

  • All eyes on Auld Reekie: Edinburgh festival 2024 begins – in pictures

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