Non-UK

Non-UK theatre podcast episodes

Reviews

Christina Maria Castro as Sunny and Yasmina Spiegelberg (clarinet)

Lucidity

Music by Laura Kaminsky, libretto by David Cote

Seattle Opera

Tagney Jones Hall

21–24 November 2024

Nerone

Arrigo Boito

Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Sardinia

Released 15 November 2024

Franco Vassallo (Carlo), Guanqun Yu (Elvira) and Goran Jurić (Silva)

Ernani

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto Francesco Piave

Bregenz Festival

Released 25 October 2024

Tosca

Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Arena di Verona

Released 25 October 2024

Allyson Lee Brown and Stephen Tyrone Williams in rehearsal

Primary Trust

Eboni Booth

Seattle Rep

Leo K. Theater

24 October–24 November 2024

Il Diluvio Universale (The Great Flood)

Gaetano Donizetti, libretto Domenico Gilardoni

Donizetti Opera Festival, Bergamo

Released 18 October 2024

Taylor Raven as Sesto, Reilly Nelson as Annio, and Tracy Cantin as Vitellia

La clemenza di Tito

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Libretto: Caterino Mazzolà

Pacific Opera Victoria

Royal Theatre

16–22 October 2024

Joanne Rogers (Alexandra Tavares), Sheila (Shaunyce Omar), Penny (Jonelle Jordan), George Ratcliffe (R. Hamilton Wright), Sam Lucas (Nathaniel Tenenbaum)

Mrs. Loman is Leaving

Katie Forgette

ACT Contemporary Theatre

Allen Theatre, Seattle WA, US

12–27 October 2024

Jubilee

Created by Tazewell Thompson, additional music and lyrics by Diane Adams McDo...

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

12–26 October 2024

Moritz von Treuenfels (Samiel) and Christof Fischesser (Kaspar)

Der Freischütz

Carl Maria von Weber

Bregenz Festival

Released 4 October 2024

The Skin of Our Teeth

Thornton Wilder

Seattle Rep

Bagley Wright Theater, Seattle WA USA

26 September–20 October 2024

Lucie de Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti, libretto Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaez

Donizetti Opera Festival, Bergamo

Released 20 September 2024

Aladdin

David Bintley

National Ballet of Japan

New National Theatre Tokyo

20 September 2024–20 March 2025

Die Fledermaus

Johann Strauss II, Text by Richard Genée and Karl Haffner

Opéra de Lille

13 September 2024–13 March 2025

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

Sabine Devieilhe (Susanna) and Krzysztof Baczyk (Figaro)

Le Nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte

Salzburg Festival

Released 16 August 2024

The Greek Passion

Bohuslav Martinů

Salzburg Festival

Released 16 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

Pagliacci

Music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

3–17 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

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.

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.

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