I can’t use my standing tickets for the upcoming double bill in the ROH Linbury:   LARMES DE COUTEAU / FULL MOON IN MARCH    Friday 26th April 7.45pm - one ticket £8 Sunday 28th April 3pm - one ticket £8   Anyone interested please PM as well as posting here.   Thank you ..read more

I booked two excellent tickets at £35 each for this event:-   https://lpo.org.uk/event/gotterdammerung/   Now I sadly can't go. Will sell separately or together. Tickets in that area - side stalls - long since sold out.   Anyone interested please send me a PM as well as posting here.    Many thanks.  ..read more

The General rehearsal was last night. We don't review rehearsals but I think it is worth noting for those who are still undecided as to whether to get a ticket, there is no gorilla in the new production by Damiano Michieletto.   In fact this show feels almost like a companion piece to the same director's Cav and Pag. As Amazon might say, if you liked that, you may like this one.  ..read more

D13 SCS for next week's ROH dress rehearsal of the new production of the opera Carmen, 7pm Tuesday 2nd April. £9.   Please PM as well as posting here if interested.   ..read more

Having not been taken by ENO's version, which I think is the only one I've ever seen, I was wondering whether I should give this one a go.  Thoughts on the production and the scheduled casts would be most welcome ..read more

It was the ROH Diana Damrau recording of this production that got me into opera and, before I see it live for the first time, I have some questions if I may. In another thread Geoff said that there had been some changes in the recent revivals, any more detail on this please? The production has some split screen effects with a divider allowing different sets either side, does this mean there are any parts of the auditorium where views may be less good? I’m booked to see Nadine Sierra but planning on getting another ticket. Any thoughts on Liv Redpath as Lucia? Or stick with another Nadine Sierr ..read more

No more guessing, no more assumptions about "Maoism", no more gossip or backstage rumour. The Arts Council has just issued a lengthy report telling us what it thinks about opera (spoiler alert, basically the Arts Council hates opera). Their report can be accessed here:   Lets Create_Opera and Music Theatre Analysis_Full report.pdf   I can't claim to have read the whole thing yet but I notice with a smirk that one of those involved is a well-known dodgy person operating inside the arts, who was once characterised in print as "the worst executive I have ever dealt with". So the Arts Co ..read more

Yllana  The Opera Locos Peacock Theatre, WC2 Wednesday 8 – Saturday 11 May  Tickets: £18 - £45 Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com     Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in summer 2023, award-winning Spanish theatre company Yllana brings the London premiere of The Opera Locos to the Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells’ home in the West End, this May. The Opera Locos is a comic opera show where five lyrical singers combine well-known opera classics i ..read more

If you have a spare seating ticket… let me know! Tx ..read more

Another fabulous Wigmore Hall recital this lunchtime (6th March). Alisa Weilerstein cello and Inon Barnatan piano played the fiendishly difficult Britten cello sonata with astonishing ease followed by the Brahms second cello sonata, a favourite. They then played the Andante from the Rachmaninov cello sonata as an encore. A wonderfully matched duo and so good to have the Wigmore Hall hosting their programme, such a welcome haven of civility from the ills around us ..read more