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Opera
Live Review

Review: Don Carlos (The Met Live in HD)

A gilt-edged ensemble of soloists with superlative all-round ability and stamina deliver a performance of dramatic power and grim beauty in Verdi's seldom-seen five-act Don Carlos.

June 8, 2022
Opera
Live Review

Review: Tristan und Isolde (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence)

Simon Stone's sexting Tristan may be baffling but Skelton, Stemme and Rattle demand to be heard.

September 21, 2021
Opera
news

International Opera Awards announce 2021 winners online

Virtual performances and moving acceptance speeches define a traumatic year.

May 12, 2021
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
CD and Other Review

Review: Jake Heggie: Unexpected Shadows

From First Ladies to female statues, with Heggie and Barton expect the unexpected.

September 21, 2020
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
features

Jamie Barton on making music with Jake Heggie

American mezzo Jamie Barton tells Clive Paget about recording Unexpected Shadows, Limelight’s Recording of the Month for October.

September 21, 2020
Opera
Live Review

Review: 2019 Richard Tucker Gala (Carnegie Hall, New York)

Lisette Oropesa proved a worthy winner of this year's Award, and the support were no slouches either.

October 29, 2019
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Viardot: Le Dernier Sorcier (Eric Owens, Jamie Barton)

Viardot’s 19th-century fairytale with 21st-century eco twist.

July 8, 2019
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
CD and Other Review

Review: All Who Wander (Jamie Barton)

Barton proves her worth in moody song fest debut.

November 2, 2018
Opera
Live Review

Review: Götterdämmerung (San Francisco Opera)

Zambello's finely-judged Ring goes up in flames leaving the women to inherit what's left of the earth.

June 19, 2018
Opera
Live Review

Review: Die Walküre (San Francisco Opera)

A strongly cast production with real gravitas makes for a very fine second instalment in Wagner's Ring Cycle.

June 15, 2018
Opera
Live Review

Review: Das Rheingold (San Francisco Opera)

A finely cast Rheingold makes an appropriately glittering start to Zambello's 'American' Ring.

June 14, 2018
Classical Music, Opera
features

Jamie Barton named ‘Singer of the World’

The BBC’s prestigious competition has crowned a new champion.

June 27, 2013

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