Thirty-four years is a long time to leave an opera in the attic, and I puritani has spent most of that period gathering dust ...

While the country house opera season is in full swing, the Royal Opera has mounted a major new production of Bellini’s final ...

I Puritani at Royal Opera: Lisette Oropesa is astounding - 4/5 Bellini’s I Puritani lands at Royal Opera with a ...

Read our review of Bellini's opera *I puritani*, now in performances at the Royal Opera House to 19 July. Read more theatre ...

Bellini did pull the drama off, with a concise series of dramatic confrontations, in his greatest opera, Norma; here the plot gets off to a slow start, most of an over-long first act devoted to ...

The Royal Ballet and Opera is cutting 64 roles, including nine compulsory redundancies, as the Covent Garden institution ...

London marked the 2026 World Cup kick-off with SeokJong Baek and the Royal Opera Chorus performing Puccini’s ‘Nessun dorma’ in Covent Garden.

The United Kingdom‘s Royal Ballet and Opera has canceled its planned 2026 production of “Tosca” at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, following internal protest over the organization’s stance on Gaza, the ...

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Born on a tiny, impoverished South Pacific island, Pene Pati remembers going to school without food. Now he is performing in operas at La Scala and the Met ...