There are so many aspects and angles to this production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s rarely performed Le Coq d’Or that reaching a conclusion as to its overall standard is no easy task. The composer’s late ...

Returning to the London Coliseum this October is Peter Konwitschny’s production of La traviata. Romantic and heartbreaking in equal parts, Verdi’s most famous opera tells the story of the doomed love ...

No opera in history is better at being irreverent, raunchy and funny all at the same time, but there is one thing missing in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre– the yarn factor. Without characters to follow or ...

Following a series of successful hits which have cemented the English National Opera’s (ENO) place as a major home for Gilbert & Sullivan’s works, Cal McCrystal’s Iolanthe returns to the London ...

Our Pick of the Upcoming Season 2026 is a year of change at the top of the London opera scene. The Royal Opera’s new Music ...

On its own terms, The Mongol Khan is a five-star show – and I’m already recommending it to friends. Not without reservations of course. As is the case for Grand Opera newbies, one must caveat ...

The London Coliseum, one of the largest venues in London, will reopen for two days of special performances of Mozart's Requiem. Presented by the English National Opera (ENO), the shows will take place ...

When contemporary opera struggles to find its own stories to tell, it plunders promiscuously from other genres — films, theatre, TV, novels. In the process, it runs the risk of becoming a mere ...

Any sense of slight anticlimax may well the fault of a musical which, while stocked higher with hit songs than most (Cole Porter at his wickedly rhyming, melodically snaking best), has always struck ...

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Opened by Oswald Stoll on 24 Dec 1904. The first London theatre with a revolving stage. Home of the ...