The Enchanted Wanderer

A hard performance for Westerners to enjoy, Gergiev managed this heavy burden of a work very well, but a burden it remained

Król Roger

Szymanowski's music sucks you in, iridescent and mysterious, filled with the perfumes of east and west

China to show propaganda opera at Olympics

Chinese propaganda opera that was composed to help Tibetans accept Beijing's rule will be performed at Olympic finale

Ladies sing the blues

Acts veered from the sublime to the ridiculous in a highly political week at the International Festival

Wide of the Marquez

Magic and realism are lacking in the latest Glyndebourne commission, Love and Other Demons

The Two Widows

The twighlight glow of Bohemian passion shines out in a rare staging of Smetana's opera

Saint Endellion Festival - the Sunday Times review

For the past 50 years, this church has played host to an annual music festival, run for the past three decades

Gunning for you in Love and Other Demons

The ‘super-sexy’ American opera star Nathan Gunn will soon be casting his spell over Glyndebourne, says Emma Pomfret

Will opera ever be massive with the masses?

There’s never been so much opera around in Britain, but is it attracting enough people, wonders Richard Morrison

Richard Strauss Week at the Munich Opera Festival - the Sunday Times review

What Mozart is to Salzburg, so, once upon a time, was Richard Strauss to Munich. He is given a patchy outing in his week-long fest

Les Pecheurs de Perles

A dazzling performance by professionals and amateurs courtesy of a company addicted to challenge

Battle over role of Puccini's granddaughter

The composer's granddaughter has started a campaign against claims by another woman that she is his granddaughter as well

Hansel and Gretel - the Sunday Times review

The timing of Glyndebourne’s first-ever production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s "fairy tale", Hänsel und Gretel, could hardly be less...

Biteback: Monkey: Journey to the West

Monkey: Journey to the West

Perhaps it’s a moot point that Monkey isn’t really an opera. It is confident, chirpy good fun and probably here to stay

Live opera performances for cinema audiences

Live performances of opera from Covent Garden come to cinemas as the Royal Opera House tries to reach new audiences

Jette Parker Young Artists

My top tip for the future is the seriously impressive South African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, says Neil Fisher

Hansel and Gretel

It isn't hard to work out why Glyndebourne has waited 74 years to tackle Humperdinck's dark, fairytale opera

Buxton Festival - the Sunday Times review

From frothy comedy to best of British, Buxton is a jolly good show

A Chair in Love

Metcalf’s work is sometimes touching and always eager to please, but it’s writing emotional cheques that it just can’t cash