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I count myself as privileged to have witnessed Götterdämmerungat the Royal Opera House during this season’s revival of Keith Warner’s Ring.
The well-reviewed revival of Don Giovanni from the Royal Opera House will be livecast at 2:00 PM EDT.
By La Cieca
The dream cast put together for this second revival of Kasper Holten’s Don Giovanni production shines at the Royal Opera House.
The Royal Opera House’s production of La bohéme (featuring Matthew Polenzani as Rodolfo) goes live on YouTube at 2:15 this afternoon.
By La Cieca
So I just got out of the Lohengrin prima at the ROH and I’m itching to share my thoughts.
Not one but two fascinating live video streams this afternoon, cher public!
By La Cieca
This revival of Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 Macbeth production was probably the most anticipated event of the Royal Opera House 2017/2018 season, due mostly to Anna Netrebko’s return to Covent Garden after a three-year absence.
Writing an opera for kids based on Neil Gaiman‘s successful children’s novel Coraline must have been a double challenge for Rory Mullarkey and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
“Semiramide—a better opera than this dude expected!”
By Jon Taylor
This afternoon the Royal Opera House offers a first glimpse of Richard Jones‘ new production of La bohème, the first at that theater since about 1735 or so.
By La Cieca
“It started out as something of a dinner party crowd-pleaser.”
By La Cieca
La Cieca hears that Joseph Calleja will sing Pollione opposite the Norma of Anna Netrebko at the Met for opening night 2017.
By La Cieca
Kasper Holten, Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, has announced he will quit this post in March 2017.
By La Cieca
La Cieca is sure that Meyerbeer fanatics will be delighted to hear that the Royal Opera House Covent Garden is preparing a new staging of Les Huguenots.
By La Cieca
“A lot seems to be spent on productions that simply aren’t worth it.”
By La Cieca
The experience of watching Wagner’s final opera Parsifal is frequently elevated to a spiritual occurrence, and productions have historically emphasized the religious dimension of the opera’s core themes of redemption and the dangers of temptation.
By Adam Moscoe
Sleep soundly tonight, Kasper Holten: your Vêpres Siciliennes casting problem has just been solved!
By La Cieca
Yes, you’ve heard it already, but you might as well have an official place to talk about it: Marina Poplavskaya goes on tonight in Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Royal Opera House.
By La Cieca
What we have here is the grandest opera never heard.
By Patrick Mack
La Cieca hears that Diana Damrau has withdrawn from the Royal Opera’s production of Robert le Diable (due to open December 6) because of pregnancy.
By La Cieca
Kasper Holten, director of the hunkalicious film Juan as well as current artistic director of Royal Danish Opera, will succeed Elaine Padmore as director of opera at the Royal Opera House starting next year. [The Stage]
By La Cieca
I saw the final dress rehearsal of Adriana Lecouvreur at the Royal Opera House on Monday this week, and I think I have never seen the place so crowded for such an event. No wonder, for here was a cast you might dream of, in a highly finished piece of work mounted by one of…
By ginpit uk
