Palace Opera And Ballet Screens Royal Opera’s “Emotionally Shattering” Madame Butterfly

Palace Opera And Ballet Screens Royal Opera’s “Emotionally Shattering” Madame Butterfly

Soprano Ermonela Jaho thrilled Sydney’s opera audiences last summer with her performance as Violetta in Opera Australia’s revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s La traviata. She is now enthralling in the role of Cio-Cio San in Puccini’s Madam Butterfly at London’s Royal Opera, Covent Garden. The Guardian’s Tim Ashley said “The whole evening is, in fact, outstanding. Ermonela Jaho,…

Palace Opera And Ballet: La Damnation De Faust From Paris

Palace Opera And Ballet: La Damnation De Faust From Paris

In the Palace Opera & Ballet 2016 Season, superstars Jonas Kaufmann, Sophie Koch and Bryn Terfel return to the Paris Opera with Alvis Hermanis’s new staging of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, a forceful légende dramatique, the first of a Berlioz cycle which is to continue over several seasons. Goethe’s story of a man who sells his…