I’m still thinking about Laurent Pelly’s <em>The Golden Cockerel</em> I’m still thinking about Laurent Pelly’s <em>The Golden Cockerel</em>

In a lifetime of opera going I suppose I have seen many transformative productions, but this recent one seems, in the light of the increasing disaster enfolding this country, uncannily pertinent.

By Belfagor November 08, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Prick and choose Prick and choose

Heartbeat Opera knows how to party.

By November 16, 2023 at 9:00 AM
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Uninvited ghost Uninvited ghost

Trove Thursday sends best wishes to Michael Tilson Thomas, currently recovering from a recent surgery to remove a brain tumor, and presents him in a broadcast leading the UK premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mlada with Makvala Kasrashvili, Felicity Palmer, Jon Frederic West and Sergei Leiferkus.

By August 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM
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I think we’ve got her number I think we’ve got her number

“Are we Team Guelf or Team Ghibelline?”

By October 01, 2018 at 8:30 AM
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Triumphal Arc Triumphal Arc

Tchaikovsky’s Orleánskaia Djeva (The Maid of Orleans) kicked off Odyssey’s Opera’s fifth season

By September 20, 2017 at 10:32 AM
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Battle of the network tsars Battle of the network tsars

For all their orchestral and vocal attractions, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s 15 operas are rarities in the West.

By October 05, 2015 at 11:00 AM
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