Peter Hoare

Falstaff

The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybod...

Chostakovitch: Lady Macbeth de Mzensk

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a powerful work of raw emotional intensity. With themes of adultery and murder, the...

Royal Ballet & Opera 2025/26: Siegfried

Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey.

Janáček: The Makropulos Affair

Premiered in 1926, Leoš Janáček’s absorbing masterpiece Veˇc Makropulos reflects all the dominant musical style...

Falstaff

Live from Glyndebourne 2009

John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary

Sir Simon Rattle, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin give an impeccable performance of the...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

A major work from the remarkable partnership of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, Mah...

Lucia di Lammermoor

Diana Damrau’s reputation as the world’s leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordinary technic...

Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence

Opera based on the story of Edward II and Piers Gaveston. Music by George Benjamin, libretto by Martin Crimp. B...

Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier

“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. His striking...

Teatro Di San Carlo: Rusalka

Captured live from Naples’ splendid San Carlo Theatre – the world’s oldest continuously running public opera ve...

The ROH Live: Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia’s brother Enrico is horrified to learn she has fallen in love with his sworn enemy Edgardo. He hastily ar...

Simon Rattle conducts Schoenberg Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder for the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Orches...

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Director and visual artist Romeo Castellucci will tackle this mythological material and project his visions ove...

Alban Berg: Wozzeck - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023

Britten: Peter Grimes

The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, which revive...

From the House of the Dead - La Monnaie / De Munt

Posthumously premiered in 1930, From the House of the Dead derives from Dostoevsky’s autobiographical 1862 nove...

Billy Budd - Olso

Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd will be performed in Norway for the very first time! This is an opera set in a ha...