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George Hall

George Hall

Biography

George Hall writes widely on opera and has contributed regularly to The Stage since 2000. He has also contributed to such publications as The New Penguin Opera Guide and the Oxford Companion to Music

Recent Articles

Madama Butterfly review

Madama Butterfly review

Puccini’s opera is electrified by the star power of soprano Asmik Grigorian’s Butterfly
Jenůfa review

Jenůfa review

Powerful performance of Janáček’s hard-hitting opera
Death in Venice review

Death in Venice review

Britten’s final opera proves an exceptional vehicle for WNO and its circus-artist partners
The Rake’s Progress review

The Rake’s Progress review

Polly Graham’s staging of Stravinsky’s morality tale sends out mixed visual messages
The Flying Dutchman review

The Flying Dutchman review

Wagner’s Gothic horror opera is staged at the Royal Opera House with its lead performers offering dramatic commitment
Così Fan Tutte review

Così Fan Tutte review

Max Hoehn’s production for Welsh National Opera fails to take Mozart and Da Ponte’s sophisticated comedy seriously
Cavalleria rusticana/Aleko review

Cavalleria rusticana/Aleko review

Karolina Sofulak highlights emotional rather than literal truth in her imaginative stagings of two contrasting one-acters
Nadine Benjamin: from the city to the Coliseum – the soaring value of opera’s rising star

Nadine Benjamin: from the city to the Coliseum – the soaring value of opera’s rising star

Lyric soprano Nadine Benjamin came to opera relatively late, having spent seven years working in corporate finance before diving into a performing career. She tells George Hall about her journey to singing on some of opera’s biggest stages
Elektra review

Elektra review

With direction from Christof Loy, Royal Opera hurls itself at the epic challenges of Strauss’s family tragedy
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci review

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci review

Damiano Michieletto’s intermingling of two verismo classics works brilliantly
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