A Punchy Don Giovanni to Open the Royal Opera Season The new season at the Royal Opera House kicked off last night with a strong revival of Kasper Holten’s 2014 production of Don Giovanni. Holten casts us deep into the amoral, guiltless world of the eponymous arch seducer. A man whose power and self-belief catalyses the […]
The Marriage of Figaro – Glyndebourne at the BBC Proms
Glyndebourne comes to London with Mozart’s dazzling opera Glyndebourne’s Le Nozze di Figaro arrived at the BBC Proms with the opera’s title now firmly in English (The Marriage of Figaro), bringing with it the weight of tradition: a reminder that opera at the Proms has always been about making the grand feel accessible, and the […]