On Opera

All of a sudden … it’s Handel time!

Until about yesterday, “opera” meant “Romantic opera”

The shepherd’s dream

Giustino, Linbury Theatre

Ritual and redemption

Parsifal, Ghent Opera House

Hot cinders

Cinderella, English National Opera

Tosca without terror

Tosca, Royal Opera

Love among the sandwiches

Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre

The weird and wonderful fringe

Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free

Mad for it

A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park

Curiously inconsequential

Rodelinda, at Garsington Opera, lacks real attention to character or relationship

Bonfire of the vanities

The Covent Garden Semele uses the bad-faith tricks of the director’s shabby trade