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Opera

February 2025

  • Sacrifice … Opera North’s The Flying Dutchman.

    The Flying Dutchman review – Opera North production draws small boats into Wagner’s tale

  • Anna Pirozzi (Aida) and Raehann Bryce-Davis (Amneris) in Aida

    The week in classical: Aida; Chineke!; Paddington Trio – review

January 2025

  • A scene from Aida by Giuseppe Verdi @ ROH. A Royal Ballet and Opera Production. Directed by Robert Carsen. Conducted by Daniel Oren. (Opening 28-01-2025) ©Tristram Kenton 01-25 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Aida review – parades and totalitarianism rather than pyramids and triumphal marches

  • ‘In opera you get 80 different perspectives’ ... a rehearsal for Festen at the Royal Opera House.

    ‘It’s really a very dark comedy’: Festen, the explosive opera based on the dinner-party-from-hell film

  • The essence of bright … Claire van Kampen at the opening night party for Farinelli and the King on Broadway in 2017.

    Claire van Kampen: a world-class theatre composer and bright star of Shakespeare’s Globe

  • simon rattle holds his hands together in thanks, acknowledging the applause at the end of the LSO's performance of Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 5

    The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; CBSO/ Volkov; Jenůfa – review

  • Graham Marchant obituary

  • Jenůfa review – this opera is in Hrůša’s DNA, his account is not to be missed

  • ‘Our thighs are aquiver!’ Inside the Siegfried and Roy opera with magic, tiger puppets and ‘hysterical sex’

  • 2025 culture preview
    From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

December 2024

  • The Tales of Hoffmann at the Royal Opera House, London with Alex Esposito (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dr Miracle/Dapertutto), top and Marina Costa-Jackson (Giulietta).

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Devils, drunks and divas: Tristram Kenton’s opera pictures of the year

  • Composite image. From left to right: Jada Narkle in Guuranda, MTC's 2024 musical production of My Brilliant Career, Zahra Newman in The Hate Race, Callum Linnane in OSCAR and Sukania Venugopal and Radhika Mudaliyar in Counting and Cracking.

    Summer essentials
    Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2024

  • Carole Wilson, right, and Kate Lindsey in Hansel and Gretel.

    Hansel and Gretel review – manic energy and festive roars of fury keep kids enrapt

  • Mark Le Brocq as Aschenbach, with aerialist Antony César as Tadzio, in WNO’s superlative Death in Venice.

    Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2024

  • The week in classical: La bohème; London Contemporary Music festival – review

  • Sarah Leonard obituary

  • Heart-wrenching, joy-inducing and irrepressibly thrilling: our classical critics’ highlights of the year

  • 2024 in Culture
    New heights, fond farewells and daring acrobatics – the year in classical music

  • La Bohème review – action rather than angst in lively revival

  • ‘Without a voice, she had no self’: who was the real Maria Callas?

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