English National Opera’s production of Gluck’s opera has strong leads in Christine Rice, Nick Pritchard and Jacques Imbrailo. But why is it sung in French?

YOU may as well devote at least part of your summer to the study of English, for it appears that there will be not less than three associations presenting opera in that language in town next season.

In the era of Carmen On the Common and the dominance of classical opera, finding original, modern opera that both entertains and provokes audiences has becoming increasingly difficult. But the ...

After the British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten wrote two serious operas in the form of Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia, he decided to turn his hand to comedy. The result was Albert ...

Get a first look at production photos of IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE at English National Opera! Directed by Lyndsey Turner, the production stars Christine ...

Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

Peter Grimes, one of the centrepiece events of this year’s Brisbane Festival, is a remarkable collaboration between the festival, Opera Queensland, Philip Bacon AM, the Queensland Performing Arts ...

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In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...