Great music, infernal costumes, attention-grabbing design, this opera has everything except an intelligible plot.

Giacomo Sagripanti’s live wire dynamics and keenly judged tempo choices keep this revival of Verdi's Il trovatore buoyant at ...

Cliches are apotheosised into an artform without equal and a stellar cast round out this return of RBO's Bosch themed ...

This revival of Adele Thomas’s production of Verdi’s great warhorse opera is thought-provoking but eccentric When Adele ...

Directorial nods and winks undermine the impact of Verdi’s brutal, passionate opera This Verdi work smoulders with trauma.

Sung with a limpid radiance here by Rachel Willis-Sørensen, it is one of those passages that imbue the opera’s convoluted plot and impassioned, but one-dimensional characters with a depth that few ...