Barry Millington

Opera

Tosca at Glyndebourne: Adds a few shocking twists of the knife

Ted Huffman’s new production at Glyndebourne relocates Puccini’s opera to the Fascist period

By Barry Millington
27 May 2026
Culture

ENO fuse Viennese operetta and Broadway musical in The Merry Widow

By Barry Millington
4 Mar 2019
Culture

Tchaikovsky gamble comes up trumps in The Queen of Spades

By Barry Millington
15 Jan 2019
Culture

LSO and Rattle create a sense of uplift that is persuasive and moving

By Barry Millington
11 Jan 2019
Culture

Young talents Degavino, Scott and Zerafa have classical virtuosity

By Barry Millington
8 Jan 2019
Culture

Hänsel and Gretel is magical but not as Grimm as it should be

By Barry Millington
18 Dec 2018
Culture

Simon Rattle conducts the LSO with achingly beautiful textures

By Barry Millington
17 Dec 2018
Culture

Thomas Adès turns pianist for subtle soundscapes at Wigmore Hall

By Barry Millington
10 Dec 2018
Culture

Carmen evokes the bullring and Broadway with cabaret and circus

By Barry Millington
5 Dec 2018
Culture

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber never fail to express sweet sorrow

By Barry Millington
29 Nov 2018
Culture

Roderick Williams and Susie Allan capture the Great War legacy in song

By Barry Millington
27 Nov 2018
Culture

Zuill Bailey and Piers Lane mix honeyed tones with clear virtuosity

By Barry Millington
23 Nov 2018
Culture

Wolfgang Tillmans brings arresting imagery to ENO's War Requiem

By Barry Millington
20 Nov 2018
Culture

Ravishing voices tell Il Pomo d'Oro's tortuous tale at the Barbican

By Barry Millington
29 Oct 2018
Culture

Gershwin's triumphant return with Porgy and Bess is worth the wait

By Barry Millington
15 Oct 2018
Culture

There is a method to the madness in ENO's Lucia di Lammermoor

By Barry Millington
26 Oct 2018
Culture

Female singers prevail in Radamisto's tale of power and lust

By Barry Millington
11 Oct 2018
Culture

Siegfried/Götterdämmerung's dramatic detail gives music greater force

By Barry Millington
2 Oct 2018
Culture

English National Opera's Salome is psychologically acute

By Barry Millington
1 Oct 2018
Culture

Tectonic plates shift in enthralling rendition of Wagner's Die Walküre

By Barry Millington
27 Sept 2018
Culture

Das Rheingold is gripping, impressive and superbly nuanced

By Barry Millington
25 Sept 2018
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