14 Oct 2014:
Tonight, Placido Domingo returns to the Royal Opera House to sing in Verdi’s I Due Foscari, his 28th role for the company in a 43-year-career of performing there. Here’s a few highlights of the singer’s many roles over recent years.
16 Sep 2014:
There is powerful chemistry between Simon Keenlyside and Aleksandra Kurzak, though the opera’s dramatic and musical climaxes are not always in sympathy, writes Tim Ashley
4 Aug 2014:
The Mariinsky company lives up to its reputation in a production brimming with collective and individual excellence, writes Judith Mackrell