Tuning in to Opera

Here's a contrast to liven your opera watching! The Met is now themeing their livestreaming weeks and this week it's Puccini - again. ...

The week at the Met is all bel canto - seven operas - 4 by Donizetti, 2 from Rossini, and 2 from Bellini. Among them are some splendid...

What’s French about French Opera? It’s always been about not being Italian. Until Wagner, that is. And also about getting the balance of...

This week – all week (Monday 31st to Sunday 6 Sept) – Glyndebourne screens their 2011 production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg....

Met live streaming September 1-7 The Met is now theme-ing its live-streaming weeks. This one is "20th Century and Beyond" And here's Tom...

Is Purcell’s ‘semi-opera’ The Fairy Queen 'the greatest work for the stage by a British composer'? Who cares? - it's a gem, and this week...

From Glyndebourne, this week, it’s Hamlet - the opera. That is, the only successful one of some 40 attempts over the years to make an...

It's the week beginning 10 Aug and I was seriously considering a post pointing all weary iso-viewers to Gilbert and Sullivan opera online...

It’s a week for confronting evil and corruption at least in opera. And a highlight is the Met’s recent production of Handel’s Agrippina....

Here's news of good watching. First: an alert - your last chance to see the Glyndebourne The Barber of Seville is this coming weekend,...

Plenty for our viewing in the week of July 20th To start, two Barbers of Seville So you can relax with Rossini. From Monday 20 July...

It's the week of July 13th - Week 18 of a wealth of free live streaming operas from crippled companies all over the locked down world....

Let's start near home. Opera Australia has added to their online operas their 2013 Carmen from the Sydney Harbour. Details here. Star...

There's fun for free in opera as we head into July. Handel in the schoolyard or Ravel in a teacup at Glyndebourne? And of course, still...

What opera offers the most mystical and monstrous animal figures, the sweetest music and the scariest mother figure? Yes, our opera for...

What’s on this week? Pretty much everything. As always, Limelight's On with the Show gives glorious detail and good reading. Close to...

Stop Press!!! The Met rescheduled this week; if you planned your week from this blog before Tuesday, please check the dates below. I've...

Tragedy, lyrical moral tale, or farce? Take your pick, suit your mood and watch our Opera(s) of the Week one a night over the next week....

Here's the Met's program for the next week. Some brilliant productions and some operas I bet you don't know. And yes! the hoped-for...

"Sometimes the Devil is a gentleman" I can't recall when an opera excited such polarisation amongst knowledgeable reviewers - I guess it...