Culture: Opera

The Passenger (London Coliseum)

This opera isn’t the triumph that some have hailed it as.

Music Review: The Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera

Fiona Shaw's delightful direction of Mozart's great opera.

Music Review: Castor and Pollux, English National Opera

A rare and welcome French baroque production by an English opera company.

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Magical menace

A startling production of Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Fleeting visions

James MacMillan's latest chamber opera is difficult to pin down.

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OperaShots

These attempts to shake up the opera world fail.

An opera virgin's view of Lucrezia Borgia

The ENO's production of Donizetti's melodrama is underwhelming rather than disappointing.

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Edinburgh preview

Our critics’ picks of the festival.

The Pearl Fishers

Bizet's "bromance" strikes a chord with a modern audience.

Voices from the deep

Rick Jones marvels at how Britten and Forster's work has lost none of its power.