Reviewer's rating Eduardo E Cristina Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 1493Rossini had under a month to compose Eduardo. Eduardo was a ‘centone’(patchwork) opera, as 19/26 numbers were ‘borrowed’ from earlier...
Reviewer's rating Adelaide of Burgundy Adelaide di Borgogna Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 1408Rossini’s 23rd opera, composed under frantic time restraints, for the Carnival season in 1817, followed several 1817 triumphs – Cenerentola,...
The Journey to Reims Il viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2023 1604Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825,...
Reviewer’s Rating Trojan Women Ben Reiss 11/08/2023 1533During the all-too-frequent outbreaks of global conflict during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Euripides’ The Trojan Women has been a...
Reviewer's rating L’Orfeo Opéra-marionnettes Josi Steinfeld 22/04/2023 3511This sole Monaco performance was unique as it was performed entirely by puppets from the renowned Carlo Colla puppet theatre....
Reviewer's rating Alcina Josi Steinfeld 28/02/2023 3289Monte Carlo Opera has a new, and for the first time, female artistic director, the Queen of Coloratura, Cecilia Bartoli. With...
Reviewer's rating An Untitled Love Ben Reiss 24/08/2022 1887The subject of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work is clear from the title. Although the dance celebrates the extraordinariness and...
Reviewer's rating Aida Alessandro Zummo 17/08/2022 4574Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience...
Reviewer's rating Káťa Kabanová Salzburg Festival 2022 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2022 4619“So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing...
Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022 4759For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...
