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December 2024

  • The Tales of Hoffmann at the Royal Opera House, London with Alex Esposito (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dr Miracle/Dapertutto), top and Marina Costa-Jackson (Giulietta).

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Devils, drunks and divas: Tristram Kenton’s opera pictures of the year

  • Carole Wilson, right, and Kate Lindsey in Hansel and Gretel.

    Hansel and Gretel review – manic energy and festive roars of fury keep kids enrapt

  • Mark Le Brocq as Aschenbach, with aerialist Antony César as Tadzio, in WNO’s superlative Death in Venice.

    Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2024

  • A scene from Nutcracker by English National Ballet @ London Coliseum.

    The week in dance: Nutcracker; Ruination; Cinderella review – sugar plums, hard centres and off to the ball

  • The week in classical: La bohème; London Contemporary Music festival – review

  • Heart-wrenching, joy-inducing and irrepressibly thrilling: our classical critics’ highlights of the year

  • 2024 in Culture
    New heights, fond farewells and daring acrobatics – the year in classical music

  • La Bohème review – action rather than angst in lively revival

November 2024

  • L’heure espagnol at the Royal College of Music

    The week in classical: Opera triple bill: Britten, Weill and Ravel; Hänsel und Gretel; Tosca – review

  • Natalya Romaniw (Tosca) and Bryn Terfel (Baron Scarpia) in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini @ ROH. A Royal Ballet and Opera Production. Conductor, Eun Sun Kim. Directed by Jonathan Kent. (Opening 26-11-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 11-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Tosca review – Bryn Terfel’s lustful Scarpia returns to intimidate and compel

  • ‘Opera can manifest in so many ways’ … Netia Jones.

    ‘Opera should be an unstoppable art form’: Royal Opera announce Netia Jones as associate director

  • dancers in figure-hugging blue costumes all stretching at an angle to the left

    The week in dance: MaddAddam; Gigenis: the Generation of the Earth – review

  • The week in classical: The Tales of Hoffmann; Philharmonia/ Salonen; Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko – review

  • ‘Take anything, but please not my voice!’: the Royal Opera’s Sound Voice Project

  • MaddAddam review – an epic dance through Margaret Atwood’s dystopia

  • Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam morphs into a Wayne McGregor ballet – in pictures

  • Ballet Black: Heroes review – double bill explores everyday heroism and the purgatory of daily life

  • The Tales of Hoffmann review – fun, carnivalesque staging goes to the dark side

October 2024

  • Blocky and angular … Or Forevermore by Pam Tanowitz.

    Encounters: Royal Ballet review – classic hip-hop, Spider-Man antics and whip-smart satire

  • Rowan Pierce (Dede) and Henry Neill (Junior)  in A Quiet Place (Press Night 10-10-2024)
©Tristram Kenton 10-24
(3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550  Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The week in classical: Trouble in Tahiti + A Quiet Place; The Turn of the Screw; Sinfonia of London/Wilson – review

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