Non-UK

Non-UK theatre podcast episodes

Reviews

Katharina Konradi (Adele) and Georg Nigl (Eisenstein)

Die Fledermaus

Johann Strauss, libretto Carl Haffner and Richard Genee

Bayerische Staatsoper

Released 13 September 2024

La Vestale

Gaspare Spontini, text by Étienne de Jouy

Opera National de Paris

6 September 2024–6 March 2025

Turandot

Giacomo Puccini, libretto Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni

La Fenice, Venice

30 August–18 September 2024

Macbeth

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto Francesco Piave

Salzburg Festival

Released 16 August 2024

The Greek Passion

Bohuslav Martinů

Salzburg Festival

Released 16 August 2024

Sabine Devieilhe (Susanna) and Krzysztof Baczyk (Figaro)

Le Nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte

Salzburg Festival

Released 16 August 2024

Pagliacci

Music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

3–17 August 2024

AI: The Waiting Room – An Immersive Theatrical Experience

Angry Fish Theater, The Ally Artists Group, Natalia Yandaganova Joyce

C ARTS | C venues | C alto

3–24 August 2024

Welcome to My Room

Yeena Sung

Greenside @ George Street

2–10 August 2024

KAFKA'S APE

Adapted by Phala Ookeditse Phala from A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka

NOMA YINI (PTY LTD)

Summerhall

1–26 August 2024

The Kiss

Music by Bedřich Smetana, libretto by Eliška Krásnohorská, based on the short...

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, Ostrava, Czech Republic

19 July 2024–19 January 2025

Andrew Dickinson (Lie), Flurina Stucki (Whore) and ensemble

Antikrist

Rued Langgaard

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Released 12 July 2024

Pinocchio

Anna Hop

Polish National Ballet

Theatr Wielki, Warsaw

12 July 2024–12 January 2025

Alfredo il Grande

Gaetano Donizetti, libretto Andrea Leone Tottola

Donizetti Opera, Bergamo

Released 21 June 2024

Carmen

Music by Georges Bizet, text by Henri Meilhac and Kudovic Halévy

Opernhaus Zürich

Opernhaus Zürich, Switzerland

15 June–15 August 2024

The Playbook

James Shapiro

Faber and Faber

Released 6 June 2024

Tosca

Music by Giacomo Puccini, text by Luigi Illicia & Giuseppe Giacosa

Teatro Regio di Parma

Teatro Regio di Parma, Italy

31 May–1 December 2024

Gloria

Francesco Cilea, libretto Arturo Colautti

Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Sardinia

Released 17 May 2024

The Barber of Seville

Music by Gioachino Rossini; Libretto by Cesare Sterbini

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

4–19 May 2024

The Enchantress

Pyotr Tchaikovsky, libretto by Ippolit Shpazhinsky

Oper Frankfurt

Released 26 April 2024

Marilena Ruta (Gilda), Alex Esposito (Gregorio) and Alessandro Corbelli (Giulio)

L'aio nell'imbarazzo (The tutor in trouble)

Gaetano Donizetti

Donizetti Opera, Bergamo

Released 19 April 2024

Salome

Richard Strauss, libretto by Hedvig Lachmann, German translation of Oscar Wil...

Irish National Opera

Irish National Opera, Dublin, Ireland

19 April–19 October 2024

Theodora

George Frideric Handel, libretto by Thomas Morell

MusikTheater an der Wien

MusiktTheater an der Wien, Austria

12 April–12 August 2024

Cécile Muhire as Cherubino with Donovan Singletary as Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Pacific Opera Victoria

Royal Theatre

3–9 April 2024

Joelle Peters as Eugenia, Kathleen MacLean as Marie-Angelique and Jenna-Lee Hyde as Cecilia

Women of the Fur Trade

Frances Koncan

Stratford Festival

Stratford Festival Theatre

From 27 March 2024

Maev Beaty as Beatrice and Graham Abbey as Benedick

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival

Stratford Festival Theatre

From 27 March 2024

Alfred Reiter (Jeronimus) with revellers

Maskarade

Carl Nielsen after comedy by Ludvig Holberg

Frankfurt am Main Opera, Germany

Released 22 March 2024

Luca Pisaroni (Mahomet II) and Nino Machaidze (Pamyra)

Le Siège de Corinthe

Gioachino Rossini

Rossini Festival, Pesaro

Released 22 March 2024

Doktor Faust

Ferruccio Busoni

Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence

Released 15 March 2024

News

Back row from left: Playbox artistic director Emily Quash, Playbox consultant director Stewart McGill, Playbox deputy executive director Juliet Vankay and Playbox literary director Toby Quash. Front row: MLS vice-president Claudia O Perretti, MLS president Masa Ota and Playbox founding and executive director Mary King

Playbox to make fourth visit to Japan

18 August 2024

Warwick-based Playbox Theatre is to tour Tokyo in July 2025—the company's fourth visit to Japan and the first for 18 years.

Danielle Bird (Yellow Servant), Robert Penny (Blue Servant), Nathan Johnston (Green Servant) and Rhiannon Skerritt (Purple Princess)

Princess and the Pea transfers to New York

31 July 2024

The first production created in a partnership between Upswing, Staffordshire’s New Vic Theatre and London’s Unicorn Theatre is to have its international première in New York.

Cork’s Everyman Theatre announces new managerial and creative team

12 June 2024

Anna Marie Coughlan and Des Kennedy have been appointed to lead new era for Cork theatre.

Owen McCafferty's Agreement at the Irish Arts Center, New York

Lyric Belfast’s Agreement hitting the headlines in New York

3 May 2024

American critics lavish praise and liken Northern Irish drama to musical phenomenon Hamilton.

Poster image for The Worst Cafe in the World

Northern Ireland’s Big Telly wins NY theatre award

29 April 2024

The Worst Cafe in the World to open in Belfast after winning an innovative theatre award in New York.

Poster image for Jane Coyle's Both Sides in Paris

European première for Northern Ireland playwright Jane Coyle

20 April 2024

Jane Coyle’s Both Sides is to make its Continental debut in Paris in May.

Dance Theatre Harlem's Ronald Perry and Christina Johnson meet London schoolchildren

Black Dancers in Ballet transatlantic live-stream

20 April 2024

The Royal Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Black British Ballet will live-stream Black Dancers in Ballet—Sharing a Rich Trans-Atlantic History.

Features

Harry Potter Casts a Long Spell

7 June 2024

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is getting into the Broadway record books. However, it cannot yet compare with London perennials.

Something Completely Different

21 June 2024

For those who want to indulge their love of musical theatre, The Broadway Cruise might be just the (expensive) ticket.

George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck

Star Casting Hits the Jackpot

17 May 2024

Even by recent standards, the news that George Clooney is to make his Broadway debut is something special, but is it good for the theatre community?

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