Press

• Verdi Otello

  Wiener Staatsoper

  Jun 2019

  • By far outshining Vienna’s past two Otello productions.

    • Moore Parker, 'The Opera Critic'
    • 30 June 2019

• Verdi Macbeth

  Metropolitan Opera, New York

  Sep 2016

  • A revival of Adrian Noble’s grimly powerful modern-dress 2007 production ... Mr. Noble’s production is even better than I remember.

    • Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
    • 25 September 2015

  • Adrian Noble's effective 2007 production, a post-World War II dystopian environment of gloom, with designer Mark Thompson's black pillars and Jean Kalman's stark lighting, framed Ms. Netrebko well. Baritone Željko Lučić was a soft-edged Macbeth, in thrall to the ferocity of his Lady. Bass René Pape was a bit of luxury casting for Banquo, who is killed off regrettably early in the action; Joseph Calleja was a generic Macduff. One of Mr. Noble's most entertaining production elements is the witches, a coven of Monty Python-esque housewives with white ankle socks, squashed hats, and pocketbooks that, when opened, threw light on their faces; the Met chorus brought a gleeful mania to their scenes.

    • Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal
    • 29 September 2014

• Verdi Simon Boccanegra

  Opera di Roma

  Jan 2016

  • Noble’s conventional, but always musical and effective production.

    • Jack Buckley, Seen and Heard
    • 01 December 2012

• Verdi Don Carlo

  Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

  Jan 2016

  • The Bolshoi's vast Main Stage absolutely cries out for stylish traditional productions of large-scale 19th-century operas. And that is precisely what British director Adrian Noble and his production team have come up with. Noble moves principals and chorus about in classic fashion, no doubt partly a reflection of his experience as a long-time head of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company.

    • Raymond Stults, The Moscow Times
    • 19 January 2014