Josi Steinfeld was brought up and lives in London, having been a professional opera singer since the age of 21. She obtained a degree in opera studies with the Rose Bruford College 20 years ago, since when she has been giving opera talks and lectures.
Aida was conceived by Verdi as the grandest of grand opera for Cairo in 1871 as a great spectacle. It is intrinsically Egyptian with pyramids temples ...
Five stars are not sufficient for probably the best production I have ever seen! Its debut was last year in Salzburg and will undoubtedly be revived a...
Shame on the Arts Council for effectively reducing London to one opera house, making it the poor man of Europe, less attractive to singers and tourist...
Many of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas expose prejudice against social outcasts. Rigoletto - a hunchback, Il Trovatore - gypsies, La Forza del Destino - a mi...
It is a rare occurrence to be able to see a great actor’s one man show. We were privileged to see Sir Ian McKellan’s a few years ago and an equal pri...
Puccini died before completing Turandot; music after the death of Liù was composed by Franco Alfano. At its 1926 première, conductor Toscanini stopped...
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...
Umberto Giordano used the true story of the poet Andrea Chénier, guillotined in 1794 aged 32, three days before the end of the Terror as inspiration f...
Monte Carlo Opera has a new, and for the first time, female artistic director, the Queen of Coloratura, Cecilia Bartoli. With Alcina, Handel concludes...
