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Magic of Italy in L’Elisir d’Amore

24.07.09
Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love) is one of the few bel canto comedies to have survived but it needs bold direction.... more

Horlick, Tchenguiz and Madoff played out in full operatic glory

11.06.09
The bel canto operas of Gaetano Donizetti are too rarely performed. So it was a great pleasure last weekend to go with my family to Opera Holland Park to see a splendid production of Roberto Devereux ... more

Roberto Devereux is a rare treat

03.06.09
London's premier summer opera festival has begun and Opera Holland Park has lined up as enticing a programme as ever, starting with Roberto Devereux.... more

A very silly but potent love potion

13.05.09
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's deeply stupid and terribly pretty comic opera L'Elisir D'Amore is frolicsome, rollicksome fun... more

Are we down to our last tenor?

06.05.09
Rolando Villazon has just cancelled his performances for the rest of the year — leaving the title of the greatest male voice up for grabs.... more

Macbeth, Oliver! and now Puccini... theatre director Goold signs up to ENO

02.04.09
Award-winning director Rupert Goold, 36, is to direct Turandot in the English National Opera's next season ... more

Cecilia Bartoli shares the love

18.12.08
Vocal recitals with piano accompaniment can be frosty affairs but not when Cecilia Bartoli is performing.... more

Knight of passion in the park with Iolanta

04.08.08
Wonderful though the music is, characterisation is wooden in Tchaikovsky's one act Iolanta, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Pelly leaves us hungry in Hansel und Gretel

21.07.08
Jennifer Holloway and Adriana Kucerova are splendidly convincing as Hansel and Gretel at Glyndebourne, says Barry Millington.... more

Opera legend Joan Sutherland, 81, recovering after breaking both her legs

07.07.08
Dame Joan Sutherland is in hospital after breaking both legs in a fall in the garden of her Swiss home. ... more

La Fille du Régiment saved by cast

05.06.08
La Fille du Régiment seems undernourished but the production is blessed with a singer whose voice is bright, clean and agile.... more

Il Trovatore not dampened by weather

04.06.08
There may have been gipsy curses on the weather but Il Trovatore stormed to success in its opening night at Opera Holland Park.... more

Favourites and forgotten gems in Il Trovatore

03.06.08
Opera Holland Park offers a thrilling opportunity for a far wider audience to see and hear Il Trovatore.... more

A diva for the 21st century

14.05.08
Fiona Maddocks meets soprano Danielle de Niese as she prepares to seduce Glyndebourne in L'Incoronazione di Poppea.... more

Just mad about the scene

18.02.08
Director David Alden and conductor Paul Daniel sweep the stereotypes aside in their revisionist new production of Lucia di Lammermoor.... more

Opera saved by a star in the wings as lead singer is taken ill

18.02.08
A member of a West End opera audience received a huge ovation when he stepped in to sing the lead role after the star lost his voice... more

Opera saved by a star in the wings

18.02.08
A member of a West End opera audience received a huge ovation when he stepped in to sing the lead role after the star lost his voice.... more

Brilliance dimmed by a sales gimmick

28.01.08
Natalie Dessay is a true stage animal, but she looked troubled throughout her gig at the Barbican Hall.... more

Bartoli has no equal

20.12.07
Cecilia Bartoli may not have been quite at her incandescent best but she has no equal in her ability to win the affections of her audience.... more

A very potent potion

14.11.07
French director Laurent Pelly has triumphed again with a delicious new L'elisir d'amore, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Zandra creates 'eye-popping' costumes for opera

18.04.07
Zandra Rhodes will design the set and costumes for an extravagant new production of Aida, the highlight of the English National Opera's new season announced today.... more

Hytner's back in an epic season at Covent Garden

04.04.07
Nicholas Hytner is to return to the Royal Opera House after a 20 year absence, as the Royal Opera House annouces an epic 2007/08 season.... more

Meet the new Gheorghiu

27.02.07
She'll never be as stroppy as Angela, but soprano Nicole Cabell has proved she's talented enough to stand in for the great diva at a day's notice.... more

Critics choice: Top five classical events

18.01.07
Concerts devoted to Elgar, Mozart's classic The Marriage of Figaro and the Crouch End Festival Chorus all feature among Barry Millington's picks.... more

The fat lady steals it

12.01.07
A bravura cast performance, including a five-minute cameo from Dawn French, made La Fille Du Regiment something special. Fiona Maddocks loved it.... more

Critic's choice: top 5 classical events

11.01.07
La Fille du Regiment, Chichester Psalms and Czech music from the Florestan Trio are the current classical highlights, says Barry Millington.... more

The accidental opera singer

18.10.06
He shot to stardom late in life. Now Marcelo Alvarez, one of the great tenors, is back at Covent Garden. He talks to Fiona Maddocks.... more

Elisabetta

08.08.06
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