UK: Royal Opera Chorus marks 2026 World Cup start with London performance ○
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London marked the 2026 World Cup kick-off with SeokJong Baek and the Royal Opera Chorus performing Puccini’s ‘Nessun dorma’ in Covent Garden.
53 days ago
AI won’t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it ⊖
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Opera makers have always engaged with the latest inventions while also preserving historic crafts. I believe it’s possible to look both forwards and backwards in this fast-evolving landscape
The disqu…
72 days ago
Samson et Dalila review – their two voices combine as if made to measure ⊕
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As the central couple, SeokJong Baek and Aigul Akhmetshina are dramatically persuasive and expressive in this revival of Richard Jones’s staging that works hard to make Saint…
75 days ago
Royal Opera House calls for release of Georgian bass singer jailed over democracy protests ⊖⊖
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Casting director urges Keir Starmer to intervene in case of Paata Burchuladze, 71, jailed for seven years after singing at anti-regime demonstrations
The Royal Opera House in London has urged Keir Sta…
3 months ago
‘We want people on the edge of their seats’: Royal Opera boss Oliver Mears on the new season – and the controversies of the last ⊕⊕
Wagnerites rejoice! Parsifal and the climax of Barrie Kosky’s acclaimed Ring cycle are in the pipeline. The director of opera talks about scoring a bullseye, the storms that rocked last season – and …
4 months ago
‘Siegfried wants to have fun, kill the dragon, meet the girl’: Andreas Schager on Wagner’s young bully ○
The Austrian tenor is making his Royal Opera debut as Siegfried in the third instalment of of the Ring Cycle. He explains why operetta prepared him for the opera’s epic demands, and why Wagner’s lout…
5 months ago
Boorish behaviour: UK audiences take up unwelcome tradition of booing at the opera ⊕
Critics worry as heckling, such as that at a recent Royal Opera performance, is becoming more common
Opera audiences pride themselves on knowing when – and how – to make noise. Cries of “bravo”, “brav…
Drama at the opera as Royal Opera chief steps in for sick tenor ⊖
Richard Hetherington forced to play Prince Calàf in Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot after French tenor Roberto Alagna taken ill
In terms of drama at the opera, it will be difficult to surpass Tuesday’s per…
14 months ago
TULLY POTTER reviews: Die Walkure at the Royal Opera House: The costumes are a mess and there's a giant log in the middle of the set... but the singing and playing are glorious ○
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TULLY POTTER: The new ROH Ring reaches its second evening with the best all-round cast I can recall in Die Walkure.
17 months ago
The week in classical: Aida; Chineke!; Paddington Trio – review ○
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Royal Opera House; Queen Elizabeth Hall; Kings Place, London
The Royal Opera Chorus steals the show in a revival of Robert Carsen’s solemn take on Verdi; Chineke! celebrate 10 years of change-making. …