The nostalgic rendition of the musical stars an excellent Hannah Shankman as Fanny Brice, a young woman who has dreams of ...

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The COC’s 2025 production of this masterpiece seamlessly blends performance practice tradition with a contemporary ...

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Who’s in and who’s not – on the secret, the joke, the relationship, the family, the club? That’s the fulcrum of Joe ...

The director on the threat to ENO’s future, how opera is being ‘dumbed down’ – and why he’s staging Tchaikovsky’s ...

Image: Omar Marmoush appears to be on his way to Manchester City Omar Marmoush is expected to fly into the UK early this week to complete his move to Manchester City. City reached a verbal ...

That's how I found myself at Manchester Opera House on Thursday night (January 16), enchanted and excited by the idea of going to see Tchaikovsky's masterpiece. It goes without saying that Swan ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

This revival of Janáček’s earliest operatic masterpiece marks the first occasion on which Jakub Hrůša has conducted the Royal Opera following the announcement of his appointment as Antonio ...