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L’Orfeo review – Kentridge’s exhilarating creativity animates compelling Monteverdi

A visual whirlwind accompanies charismatic and stylish performances in William Kentridge’s new staging. In the pit, Jonathan Cohen and the OAE add light and shade

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15

‘Really entertaining in a horrible way’: the indestructible appeal of Tosca

With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become one of opera’s most bankable masterpieces

The Guardian - UK · May 21

Dame Felicity Lott obituary

Popular British soprano with a captivating stage presence hailed for her Mozart and Strauss roles

The Guardian - UK · May 17

Katya Kabanova at Glyndebourne: 'much to admire but doesn't quite deliver'

4/5 Full of caged birds and winged angels, this production is high on powerful symbolism but there’s something missing...

Evening Standard · Aug 4, 2025

Le Nozze di Figaro review – astute period staging of Mozart’s masterpiece is as poignant as it is funny

Glyndebourne, SussexMariame Clément allows the story of the predatory Count to resonate across the centuries in this exhilaratingly well performed and eye-catching production

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2025

Adrian Fisher obituary

Other lives: Opera singer who appeared at Glyndebourne, in more than 700 performances in Belgium, and across Europe in solo roles

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2025

This opera house's new moving logotype oozes sophistication

Pentagram's new rebrand has caught my attention.

Creative Bloq · May 18, 2025

From the sacred to the profane: the Wagners, Bayreuth and Parsifal

Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2025

The week in classical: The Makropulos Affair; Uprising – review

Orla Boylan captivates in Olivia Fuchs’s masterly Scottish Opera Janáček. And Jonathan Dove’s rousing new community opera puts down firm roots

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2025

Uprising review – ravishingly sung opera rails against older generation destroying the planet

Teenage climate activist Lola struggles with school and family, while damaged nature is given its own voice

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025