The International Opera Awards havea nnounced the shortlist for this year’s Awards, set to take place at the Bayerische Staatsoper’sPrinzregententheater in Munich on Wednesday 2 October. The Awards ...

But Rimsky-Korsakov's rainbow-coloured score, in turn glowing and surprisingly violent (for him), is surely his greatest, and can only be done on the highest level, as it is here by the Dutch National ...

The production is dominated by the huge chorus, who are onstage almost throughout. The set is simple, a shallow ascending terrace, but it is also small and narrow, with a low ceiling. That gives a ...