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Carmen review – Costa-Jackson’s smouldering heroine blazes brightly

Ginger Costa-Jackson is an elemental and powerful Carmen in this revival of Damiano Michieletto’s 2024 staging that relocates the drama to Franco’s Spain

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30

Káťa Kabanová review – furtive groping and a wing-bloodied angel stalk flawed staging of Janáček’s opera

Robin Ticciati conducts the London Philharmonic in this finely sung but inconsistent revival of Damiano Michieletto’s 2021 production

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2025

Katya Kabanova at Glyndebourne: 'much to admire but doesn't quite deliver'

4/5 Full of caged birds and winged angels, this production is high on powerful symbolism but there’s something missing...

Evening Standard · Aug 4, 2025

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Carmen review – Akhmetshina and Elder make this an outstanding evening

Damiano Michieletto’s staging gets its first revival with Aigul Akhmetshina returning to the title role with panache and conviction

The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2025

Tales of Hoffman at the Royal Opera House review: an engaging and thought-provoking production

4/5 Surreal sets and exuberant lighting powerfully underscore this engaging trio of love stories

Evening Standard · Nov 8, 2024

Director Damiano Michieletto invigorates opera with stagings that astonish some, appall others

Damiano Michieletto has been prominent on European stages for two decades, known for contemporary reconsiderations that at times cause controversy

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2024

Carmen at Glyndebourne review: coursing with sexual and psychic energy this take on Carmen doesn't disappoint

Succeeding in avoiding clichéd, stereotypical gesturing, director Diane Paulus and star Rihab Chaieb offer an intelligent and original perspective on the problematic issues of this perennial favourite

Evening Standard · May 17, 2024

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Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change

2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024

The week in classical: Carmen; National Youth Chamber Choir/ OAE/Jeannin; LSO/ Roth review – from Habanera to doo-wop

Aigul Akhmetshina steals the show in Damiano Michieletto’s uneven new 70s-set Bizet. And in a good week for world premieres, four composers take on Handel while the London Symphony Orchestra channels death metal

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2024

Carmen at the Royal Opera review: where was the animal magnetism and dark underbelly of sexual passion?

The castanets, bullring and pelvic thrusting aren’t missed but the tightening and release of dramatic tension very much is

Evening Standard · Apr 8, 2024

Carmen review – Aigul Akhmetshina is electrifying in simmering, naturalistic staging

Conjuring the oppressive Mediterranean heat and the claustrophobia of a fraying close-knit community, Damiano Michieletto’s new production of Bizet’s tragedy is rich with drama and potent

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci review – compelling and compassionate theatre

Damiano Michieletto’s 2015 pairing of the two short operas returns for its third revival with a superb cast including Roberto Alagna, and carefully if sometimes solidly paced by Daniel Oren

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2023

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