Eugene Onegin review – passion and pathos as Tchaikovsky’s opera is dragged into the oligarch era
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Leeds Grand theatrePatrick Nolan’s thoughtful staging for Opera North shifts Pushkin’s story forward to explore the transition from Soviet state to elitist excessFor an opera rooted in 19th-century Russian romanticism it’s surprising how effortlessly…
Parsifal review – bunkers, CCTV and fembots in elusive vision of Wagner’s mystical masterpiece
Royal Opera House, LondonEvgeny Titov’s brutal and powerful new staging of Wagner’s final opera explains as little as possible. Christian Gerhaher is a compelling and wild-eyed Amfortas and Jakub Hrůša and the Royal Opera’s orchestra are superbGrail,…