Having manipulator Don Alfonso (Andrew Foster-Williams, spruce and smug as he should be) summon them from a trunk during Mozart's vivacious Overture put us in a good mood - the sort of funny business ...

For some people, the trouble with Mozart’s Così fan tutte is summed up in the title: “All women are like that”. Yet another example of opera’s inbuilt maltreatment of women? Perhaps, but then again, ...

Two-act comic opera Così fan tutte (Women are like that) is the last of Mozart’s trio of collaborations with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Cosi was a commission from the court of the Habsburg monarch ...

Polish baritone Artur Ruciński and South African soprano Pretty Yende will be the stars of Sunday’s concert at Warsaw’s National Opera. The National Opera Orchestra will be conducted by Alfonso ...

Budgets have been slashed, morale is through the floor and the company has been forced to find a second base in Manchester. But the new musical director is up for a challenge. We meet the man with the ...

English National Opera’s new production of Partenope bursts onto the stage with a vibrant mix of musical brilliance and mischievous theatricality. Handel’s witty and unconventional opera dazzles from ...

Critics worry that heckling, such as that at a recent Royal Opera performance, is becoming more common Opera audiences pride themselves on knowing when – and how – to make noise. Cries of “bravo”, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This weekend, a matinee performance of La traviata at Covent Garden stars a pair of singers whose careers show ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Exit Interview Graves, who gave her last performance on Saturday at the Met, talks about “Carmen,” the doctor who told her she would never sing again ...

“Isn’t this great? It’s not more of the same-old, same-old!” This enthusiastically expressed view from an audience member at the interval just about sums up Louisa Muller’s production – modern without ...