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Opera

November 2025

  • Jake Ingbar (Armindo) and Katie Bray (Rosmira) in Partenope at the London Coliseum.

    Partenope review – edgy and erotic Handel update

  • Balls at Royal Festival Hall, London.

    Battle of the Sexes review – tennis’s most famous match becomes kitschy, pacey opera

  • Lotte Betts-Dean as the devil in The Devil’s Den at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds.

    The Devil’s Den review – folk horror opera with morris dancing and a sinister rabbit is an eccentric delight

  • Joyce DiDonato photographed at the Royal Opera House, London, Sept 2019.

    From the Met to maximum security: Joyce DiDonato is on a mission to bring opera to the people

  • Trouble in Tahiti review – vibrant staging of Bernstein’s one-acter of marital discord

  • Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’

  • From fiasco to feted: the story of the Dream of Gerontius, the revolutionary music of The Choral

  • The Makropulos Case review: Ausrine Stundyte is magnetic in exhilarating – and funny – Janáček staging

  • Smyth’s Der Wald and Respighi’s Lucrezia review – Wagner’s spirit presides over double bill

  • ‘I’m good at doing pain’: soprano Ausrine Stundyte on trauma, adrenaline and playing a 300-year-old woman

  • Dead Man Walking review – searing honesty and humanity in ENO’s staging of Heggie’s compelling opera

  • Rosalía’s Berghain is a thunderous goth-pop hit – but is it opera?

October 2025

  • Images embargoed for use until Thursday 30th October 2025 @ 4pmHenna Mun (Phyllis), Matthew McKinney (Peter) and Jessica Cale (Bobbie) in The Railway Children by Mark-Anthony Turnage @ Glyndebourne. Directed by Stephen Langridge. Conductor Tim Anderson. (Opening 30-10-25) ©Tristram Kenton 10-25 tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Railway Children review – Turnage reimagines classic story in a lively family opera

  • Rehearsal for new Mark-Anthony Turnage opera The Railway Children, at Glyndebourne

    Back on track: how lockdown led to a new operatic version of The Railway Children

  • Harold Offeh Covers: After Grace Jones, Island Life, 1985 (Graceful Arabesque) 2008′, 2008 C-print Courtesy the artist

    ‘All roads lead to Grace Jones’: visual artists on the music that fires them up in the studio

  • Ryan McKinny (centre) performs a dress rehearsal of Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, September, 2023.

    ‘Raise the questions. Don’t provide the answers’: composer Jake Heggie on 25 years of Dead Man Walking

  • Dare you enter the splash zone? Wet and wild selkie steals the show at Glasgow’s startling arts festival

  • BBC Phil/Seal: Bliss, Miracle in the Gorbals/Metamorphic Variations album review – much to enjoy

  • Hugh Cutting: Refound album review – an idiosyncratic and profoundly satisfying collection

  • Gramophone classical music awards honour Simon Rattle for a second time; Raphaël Pichon’s Bach takes top prize

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