Benoït Jacquot’s Royal Opera production, here revived by Andrew Sinclair, is now 15 years old, but it ain’t broke and doesn’t need fixing. Large, striking sets capture lighting effects by Charles ...

On Thursday, the Korea National Opera staged one of literature's most famous tragedies as a cinematic meditation, pairing soaring vocals with images from film and ballet to explore love, duty, ...

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Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Massenet’s tragedy, a perfect vehicle for outstanding tenors, starring Piotr Beczała, who certainly fits the bill. The magnificent mezzo-soprano Joyce ...

The first night audience at Covent Garden were all looking forward to hearing the marvellous voice of German tenor Jonas Kaufman in the title role of Massenet's Werther, but he was below his best and ...

‘Noooooo’ cried the audience upon seeing the hapless emissary with his dreaded announcement – however it was not that bad, Jonas Kaufmann had a cold, but wanted to perform anyway. This was greeted ...

The celebrity tenor returns but it is Aigul Akhmetshina who scores the major triumph in this staging of Massenet's opera Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...

At one point in the second act of Massenet’s Werther, the heroine’s sister Sophie tells the eponymous hero, sung by Jonas Kaufmann, widely acclaimed as the greatest tenor of our time: “it’s you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (PR Handout) At one point in the second act of Massenet’s Werther, the heroine’s sister Sophie tells the eponymous hero, sung by ...

After last year’s Covid-cancelled role in Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci, international opera superstar Jonas Kaufmann returns to the Royal Opera House as the eponymous sadboy in Massenet’s opera ...

Based on an epistolary, partly autobiographical novel by Goethe and premiered in 1892, Jules Massenet’s lyric drama represents one of the high points of late-Romantic French opera. Its archetypal ...