5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ La Forza del Destino Josi Steinfeld 25/09/2023 La Forza del Destino is a Verdi masterpiece. Extraordinary melodies, extreme emotions, violence, confrontation, challenging main roles, and great chor...
Cristian Della Chiara in conversation with Josi Steinfeld Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 He is Rossini Opera Festival's esteemed General Director, who has recently assumed a significant role as a member of the Board of Directors for Italia...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Aureliano in Palmira Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 The public realised that 21-year-old Rossini was something special in 1813 after the success of Signor Bruschino and Italiana in Algeri. But Aureliano...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Eduardo E Cristina Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 Rossini had under a month to compose Eduardo. Eduardo was a ‘centone’(patchwork) opera, as 19/26 numbers were ‘borrowed’ from earlier operas -in part...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Adelaide of Burgundy Adelaide di Borgogna Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 Rossini’s 23rd opera, composed under frantic time restraints, for the Carnival season in 1817, followed several 1817 triumphs – Cenerentola, La Gazza ...
The Journey to Reims Il viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2023 Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825, for Charles X’s coron...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Don Carlo Josi Steinfeld 04/07/2023 Verdi’s Don Carlo is the longest and arguably the greatest Verdi opera, based on Schiller’s play set in Phillip II’s Spain. There are multiple version...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Shakespeare in Musical Form The Met Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin Josi Steinfeld 02/07/2023 It has been 20 years since the Met Orchestra have appeared in UK. This performance to a packed Barbican Hall was part of an international tour. There ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Armida Josi Steinfeld 27/06/2023 Having seen Plzeň’s new traditional production of Armida three days before, I looked forward to seeing Prague’s new interpretation. The synopsis in my...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Werther Josi Steinfeld 23/06/2023 Massenet’s Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’, published in 1774. Some, myself included, regard it as Mass...
