Reviewer's rating Eduardo E Cristina Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023Rossini 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 02/09/2023Rossini’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 01/09/2023Il 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 11/08/2023During 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 22/04/2023This 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 28/02/2023Monte 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 24/08/2022The 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 17/08/2022Shirin 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“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 11/08/2022For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...
