There’s no shame in pulling an old favourite from the vaults but Jonathan Miller’s 1982 gangster-themed production is firing ...

Jonathan Miller's Mafia adaptation of Verdi is still classy and crowd-pleasing four decades later - but for all its handsome ...

The story of Rigoletto is lifted from Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’Amuse (The King Amuses Himself), that was banned in France ...

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I am often dismayed by directors' attempts to do something original, changing the time, place and even the plot of operas in ...

Five singers join the Sarasota Orchestra and Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi for an evening of Verdi works ...

It’s 42 years since Jonathan Miller’s mafioso inspired staging of Verdi’s tragic tale of revenge gone wrong, first burst upon ...

How we used to mock those stuck-in-the-mud opera houses that wheeled out the same moth-eaten production of some box-office favourite decade after decade. Well, Jonathan Miller’s 1950s New York mafiosi ...

Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore will be performed daily, except on Tuesday, November 12, with the final show set to take place ...

You were playing a different opera every night. It was amazing – to be in the middle of an orchestra playing, say, Verdi's ...