Archive - Operalogue

Anti-Wagner season at Longborough

Wahnfried, Pelléas et Mélisande fill a gap at the "Bayreuth of the Cotswolds"

Jul 6 •

Don't Mention the French Revolution

Antonacci chills the blood as the Old Prioress, Kunde astonishes with a late-career Chénier

Jul 3 •

June 2025

Marina Rebeka confronts the La Scala ghosts of Bellini's complex heroine

Jun 30 •

On Disc: Simon Boccanegra 1857

Opera Rara challenges itself with a new recording from Mark Elder

Jun 30 •

Bat-and-Fun-infested Fledermaus

Paul Curran and Paul Daniel dish up an operetta treat at The Grange Festival

Jun 27 •

Poison in Political Opera

David Pountney's productions of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera are lessons in love and violence

Jun 23 •

Reaffirming Rodelinda

Garsington stages Handel's dramatic opera in serious style

Jun 18 •

Cosmetic Rosenkavalier; Spellbinding Trittico

Véronique Gens debuts at the Marschallin, Asmik Grigorian nails Puccini's hat-trick in Paris

Jun 14 •

Picture Postcard Donizetti, Nightmarish Tchaikovsky

L'elisir d'amore and The Queen of Spades launch Garsington's summer

Jun 8 •

Summer Letter to My Subscribers

The highlights on Operalogue June - August

Jun 4 •

Fassbaender's Search for the Holy Grail

The former mezzo stages Parsifal in Frankfurt

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Scottish Opera: Merry Widow/Double Bill

Glawari’s ‘Sicilian’ festa: Paula Sides (centre) sings The Merry Widow Picture © Mihaela Bodlovic

May 29 •

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