Almost 30 years ago a young Romanian soprano created a sensation when she debuted as Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata at London’s Royal Opera House. With a thrilling voice and diva looks to match, a ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

the impact he gets from the house orchestra is seared on the memory. The composer's first great score has its problems in a not always clear orchestration – later he went for extremes, which pose ...

The next instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is Oslo Opera House, a Snøhetta-designed project that pioneered the concept of architecture as landscape.

The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...

Moths and beetles climb the walls of the opera house proscenium. The Witch’s house, usually a kind of elaborate peasant hut with an exterior composed of candies and chocolates to entice children ...

Photo credits: Nardus Engelbrecht MY FAIR LADY runs at the Artscape Opera House from 12 December 2024 to 12 January 2025. Tickets range from R140.00 to R580.00 and are available via Webtickets.