George Hall

PJ Harris’ drive-in staging for English National Opera provides an exuberant contemporary take on Puccini’s classic

Star-studded cast gives David Pountney and Alex Woolf’s new work a confident premiere at Grange Park Opera

Garsington makes something genuinely eloquent out of its socially distanced Fidelio, directed by Peter Mumford and starring Katherine Broderick

Sinéad O’Neill’s socially distanced promenade piece brings theatrical magic back to the Grange, with a potent selection of opera, dance and theatre performances

Soprano Danielle de Niese tells George Hall about her sadness that Glyndebourne’s theatre is empty due to lockdown and singing Offenbach’s Mesdames de La Halle as part of the festival’s Covid-compliant open-air concerts

Her Madam Butterfly for ENO was interrupted in March, but the award-winning, Swansea-born soprano Natalya Romaniw is poised to continue her ascension when venues reopen. She tells The Stage why she’s not wasting any time in lockdown

Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House in London, has been at the top of the opera profession for almost two decades. The ‘singer’s conductor’ talks to George Hall about how Daniel Barenboim brought him to Bayreuth, his disastrous debut at Covent Garden and how the company is responding to the coronavirus crisis