Clive Bayley

Lohengrin

Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd

The premiere of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd in Madrid is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Teatro Real...

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito

This is an excellent production of Mozart's 1791 opera about Titus Vespasian, who prefers to be remembered for...

Candide

Billy Budd

An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman...

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

Sarah Connolly's 'outstanding' (The Guardian) portrayal of the wronged Roman noblewoman, written originally for...

The Rake's Progress

The devil is hard at work in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress! The three-act opera was premiered at Venice’s La...

Britten: Gloriana

Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Que...

Peter Grimes

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre para...

The Barber of Seville

A young count is in love with a shrewd woman who returns his feelings. But her guardian harbours his own plans...

Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla continues her high-profile championship of the works of the composer Mieczysław Weinberg w...