Peter Hoare

Wagner: Das Rheingold (2023)

Director and visual artist Romeo Castellucci will tackle this mythological material and project his visions over the course of the journey performed by the characters, representing concretely such key elements of the Ring as water and fire. This symbolic r ...

Alban Berg: Wozzeck - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 (2023)

Billy Budd - Olso (2019)

Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd will be performed in Norway for the very first time! This is an opera set in a hard masculine environment, about repressed passions and the weight of guilt - but also about rebellion, the power of beauty and about release. Di ...

From the House of the Dead - La Monnaie / De Munt (2018)

Posthumously premiered in 1930, From the House of the Dead derives from Dostoevsky's autobiographical 1862 novel that drew on his experience as a political prisoner in Siberia. Janáček focuses on Dostoevsky's idea of the "spark of God" in every human bei ...

Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence (2018)

Opera based on the story of Edward II and Piers Gaveston. Music by George Benjamin, libretto by Martin Crimp. BBC broadcast of the 2018 premiere at the Royal Opera House, the composer conducting, prefaced by commentary and interviews. ...

John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary (2017)

Sir Simon Rattle, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin give an impeccable performance of the powerful biblical oratorio "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" by John Adams, one of the most renowned contemporary composers. The sophisti ...

Lucia di Lammermoor (2016)

Diana Damrau's reputation as the world's leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordinary technical virtuosity, her sensitive musicianship and her acute psychological insight. In this DVD of Katie Mitchell's sometimes radical production of Lu ...

The ROH Live: Lucia di Lammermoor (2016)

Lucia's brother Enrico is horrified to learn she has fallen in love with his sworn enemy Edgardo. He hastily arranges her marriage to his associate Arturo. Edgardo and Lucia privately exchange rings before he leaves to fight in France. Enrico tricks Lucia ...

Chostakovitch: Lady Macbeth de Mzensk (2016)

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a powerful work of raw emotional intensity. With themes of adultery and murder, the story follows the downfall of a bored provincial merchant's wife who seeks solace and excitement in an extra-marital affair. With a bold and cont ...

Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier (2015)

"Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it's hard to imagine him bettered. His striking looks make him very much the Romantic and romanticised outsider of Giordano's vision. His voice, with its dark, liquid tone, soars through the mu ...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2015)

A major work from the remarkable partnership of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, Mahagonny was first performed in Leipzig in 1930. Its first ever Royal Opera staging, by Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames, is sung in Engl ...

Britten: Peter Grimes (2012)

The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A top British cast was marshaled by the baton of Robin Ticciati. Richard Jones' ...

Janáček: The Makropulos Affair (2011)

Premiered in 1926, Leoš Janáček's absorbing masterpiece Veˇc Makropulos reflects all the dominant musical styles of the early 20th century, from Bohemian tunefulness to big Straussian phrases, Berg-like jaggedness and primeval rhythms. With the "breath ...

Falstaff (2009)

Live from Glyndebourne 2009 ...

Falstaff (2000)

The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours of the costumes. The staging is effective--the complicated counterpoint of the ensembles is reflected in un ...