Rodula Gaitanou’s relocation of Strauss’s opera to Rome’s Cinecittà studios brings many gains, plus there’s impeccable playing, lovely singing – Elizabeth Llewellyn’s Ariadne particularly – and even ...

Rodula Gaitanou doesn’t believe in ghosts. The Greek opera director said she’s rational when it comes to the supernatural, not putting much stock in stories of haunted theaters. “What is stronger than ...

Rodula Gaitanou’s production of Verdi’s La traviata premiered at Opera Holland Park in 2018, and was first revived in 2021. This meant that it spanned both sides of the global pandemic, with the ...

Rodula Gaitanou’s adaptation, superbly sung and conducted, takes us to a shadowy, nightmarish St Petersburg full of fear, neurosis – and Cossack dancing Opera Holland Park brings its current season to ...

In 2018, Opera Holland Park enjoyed a major success with Rodula Gaitanou’s minutely observed period staging of Verdi’s classic La Traviata, with conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren marshalling the musical ...

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Now on its third revival, Rodula Gaitanou's heart-stopping version of Verdi's tragic La Traviata is as affecting as ever. Opening with consumptive courtesan Violetta gasping for air, it never lets up ...

While Richard Eyre’s ironclad Traviata draws the crowd year in year out at Covent Garden, English National Opera repeatedly tries and fails to come up with a decent production, following Peter ...

Balmy temperatures, no rain to spoil the party and a minister bearing a gift of a million euro - the omens were good at the opening night of WexfordFestival. Families out for an evening stroll mingled ...

What Verdi’s pre-verismo tragedy of the 1850s Paris demimonde demands is a cast of singer-actors who can make its familiar agonies and ecstasies ring utterly true. Three years on, Gaitanou’s ...

In 2018, Opera Holland Park enjoyed a major success with Rodula Gaitanou’s minutely observed period staging of Verdi’s classic La Traviata, with conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren marshalling the musical ...