What brought about this outpouring of emotion among the usually reticent Britons? The setting by director Richard Jones is beautifully executed: we open with a 19th-century Parisian garret, the ...
1 Washington National Opera Announces Plans to Leave the Kennedy Center 2 Post Kennedy Center Split, Washington National Opera Sets Stephen Schwartz Hosted WEST SIDE STORY Gala & More Get a behind the ...
1 Post Kennedy Center Split, Washington National Opera Sets Stephen Schwartz Hosted WEST SIDE STORY Gala & More 2 Washington National Opera Negotiates Kennedy Center Exit & Endowment Ownership The ...
A fifth revival of Richard Jones’ classic 2017 production Puccini’s four-act opera La Bohème has just opened at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi ...
In the four decades since I first saw the Royal Opera's venerable Puccini production on TV, with Ileana Cotrubaş and a youthful Plácido Domingo as Mimì and Rodolfo, it's been a constant. But theatre ...