A Child In Striped Pyjamas: Holocaust drama that’s emotionally ambitious and diligently delivered
This opera adaptation of the Auschwitz-set bestseller The Boy with the Striped Pyjamas is admirable but slightly short on dramatic nuance
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This Magic Flute is effervescent proof that children can enjoy opera too
With midday performances raptly attended by young and old, this Covent Garden revival serves up lots of fun and lets Mozart work his magic
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Opera was on top form in 2022 – but the Arts Council might kill it off
Our companies have made extraordinary efforts to innovate this year yet the funding body's punishing cuts mean the art form is under threat
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The Hours, review: the Met proves that opera need not be afraid of Virginia Woolf
The award-winning novel and film is transformed into an opera of serious heft in New York, with Joyce DiDonato at a career best
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The Turn of the Screw: a highly effective exercise in keeping it simple
Performed in the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Iván Fischer Opera Company's production of Britten's eerie opera is a treat
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Orpheus, Opera North, review: stirred by a melting-pot Monteverdi
The first great opera of the Western tradition gets a South Asian twist for an Orpheus that looks forward as well as back
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David Geffen Hall, review: So, that’s what $550 million buys you in New York
Two years early, and on budget, Lincoln Center's new symphonic music venue is here – and it's world-class
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Last Days, review: surreal Kurt Cobain opera will entice Nirvana fans but doesn't truly reveal its star
An opera about the grunge singer's final day is striking, hypnotic at times, but how do you care about a man who is not really there?
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Antonio Pappano: ‘I happily embrace diversity – just don’t blame us for having been bad people’
As the Royal Opera House launches its new streaming platform, its music director looks back over his 20 years at Covent Garden
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Tosca, ENO, review: Puccini's melodramatic masterpiece soars in this bold reimagining
The staging doesn't always work, but Christof Loy's production eschews mawkishness to find the thrumming heart of Puccini's tragedy
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Aida: camels canned and missiles deployed in an outstanding new take on Verdi
Director Robert Carsen has banished all exoticism in his radical, stimulating staging of this 1871 masterpiece for the Royal Opera
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The Makropulos Affair, review: an unmissable triumph for Welsh National Opera
This new production of Janáček's opera about a 337-year old woman who drank a potion to extend her life is superbly performed and conducted
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Antony and Cleopatra: a pacy (if not quite racy) take on Shakespeare from John Adams
There's a constant buzz of tense action in Adams's new work for San Francisco Opera, but a little more sensuality wouldn't have gone amiss
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John Adams interview: ‘To this day, I don’t really consider myself an opera fan’
The greatest living opera composer reveals his bold new take on Shakespeare
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A magnificent Dream of Gerontius, plus the best of August’s classical concerts
At the Royal Albert Hall, thanks to Edward Gardner and co, Elgar’s religious masterpiece enraptured the Proms audience
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Götterdämmerung, Bayreuth Festival review: this radical, revisionist Ring is only a qualified success
Valentin Schwarz must be praised for stripping back the cycle to its essence, but it’s a work in progress
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