The curtain opening on a Caravaggio tableau vivant is certainly an impressive gesture, guaranteed to wow an audience starved of live opera during the pandemic. And, along with the vast Titian canvases ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elder doesn’t indulge in musical histrionics; his control is firm but deft, allowing the vivid orchestral effects in Verdi’s ...

Five years on, Royal Opera House’s revival of Oliver Mears’ production has lost none of its edge. If anything, it now feels even more assured in its brutality. Back then, the audience wore masks; now, ...

The Royal Opera House welcomes Oliver Mears' captivating production of Rigoletto back to the Main Stage for its first revival this autumn. Opening on Thursday 12 October, the darkly elegant production ...

That communication Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano displays with a true magician’s sense of pace and sleight of hand, deftly transitioning from hollow comedy to ugly tragedy, alert as ever ...

Oliver Mears’s Rigoletto is back at the Royal Opera House with a revival of his production of Rigoletto. The story of Rigoletto is adapted from Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’Amuse (The King Amuses ...

David McVicar’s memorable 2001 production of Rigoletto has returned to the Covent Garden stage, with very few changes. With his dark and intriguing take on the tragic story, the audience is kept in ...

David McVicar’s dark production of Verdi’s ever-popular opera returns in a strongly-cast revival that is not without problems Rigoletto is the angry clown at the court of the Duke of Mantua. Each day, ...