Siegfried at Royal Opera: A spectacular triumph - 4/5 The latest part of Wagner’s Ring cycle at Royal Opera is remarkably ...
In designer Rufus Didwiszus’s sets, Fafner’s lair is strangely buried in midwinter snow (why should Siegfried want to relax under the lime tree in a snowdrift?). Conversely, Brünnhilde’s rock is ...
LONDON (AP) — There’s a new generation this season at the Royal Opera in London, where Jakub Hrůša took over after Antonio Pappano’s 22-year reign as music director, and Speranza Scappucci became the ...
LONDON (AP) — Dozens of Ukrainians and their supporters have demonstrated outside the Royal Opera House in London to protest a performance by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Protesters outside Thursday ...
Verdi’s Sicilian Vespers tells the story of the 13th-century uprising of the citizens of Palermo against occupying French forces, culminating in a massacre of the oppressors by the patriots. It still ...
Andreas Schager, in his much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, stars as Siegfried ’s titular hero, alongside Christopher Maltman’s towering Wanderer, Peter Hoare’s treacherous Mime and Elisabet ...