Past Production Reviews
5Kyungho Kim’s gleaming tenor provided vocal thrills, and he got the Duke’s self-absorption down pat.
The stage premiere of the Národní divadlo’s powerful new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto directed by Barbora Horáková Joly was a gala night at the opera. The splendor of the newly restored State Opera, to say nothing of the audience’s response and an entire flower shop’s stock delivered on stage during the curtain calls, added to the luster of the evening. And for all the talk about the death of fashion post-COVID-19, the younger people in the audience didn’t get the memo.
David McVicar’s production of ‘Die Zauberflöte’ is filled with nocturnal high-jinks
Classic production by David McVicar of Mozart's last opera returns to Covent Garden with a new cast and a star turn
'La Bohème' also plays at Christmas time. Johannes Leiacker's blue-framed stage design is wintry. It's snowing and snowing. The freezing artists live on a cinemascope-sized pedestal close to heaven. A counter in the Latin Quarter, a giant saluting upside down -Nicholas, shine of lights, a chapel with Mickey Mouse masks, the night city in the distance: it's nice to look at.
