Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...

Garsington’s airy and luminous opera pavilion challenges any interpreter of a work so filled – dramatically and musically – with the subterranean darkness of buildings, of institutions, and of the ...

A staple of the operatic repertoire, Beethoven’s only opera continues to be regularly revived and treated with respect by opera companies across the globe, and it’s easy to see why. Fidelio is rich in ...

It had, all the same, much to offer and please even jaded Fidelio buffs: deft, elegant but still meaty playing from Equilbey’s period-instrument ensemble, and an unfussy concert staging by David Bobée ...

The only shocking thing about Calixto Bieito’s Fidelio, which opens ENO’s autumn programme, is that it’s by the same director who gave us an insightful and vigorously-realised Carmen last season. The ...