A rare opportunity to see Rimsky-Korsakov’s marvellous lyric opera, The Snow Maiden in a new production from the Paris Opera, captured live from the Opéra Bastille, on 25 Apr 2017. The original 1882 version of this opera has bee recreated by two Russian artists: acclaimed director Dmitri Tcherniakov and conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov. Based on a Slavic…
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,…
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…