Pelléas et Mélisande Alessandro Zummo 12/07/2024Katie Mitchell’s production of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is an absolute masterpiece. This is a revival of the 2016...
Iphigénie en Aulide – Iphigénie en Tauride Alessandro Zummo 11/07/2024Christoph Willibald Gluck’s operas, “Iphigénie en Aulide” and “Iphigénie en Tauride,” composed six years apart, offer contrasting perspectives on the...
Edgar Josi Steinfeld 05/07/2024Edgar, Puccini’s second opera after Le Villi, was commissioned by Ricordi. It was not a success and went through many...
A Midsummer Nights Dream Owen Davies 04/07/2024Benjamin Britten’s operatic version of Shakespeare’s play famously begins in the enchanted forest outside Athens where mortals encounter the elfin...
King for a Day Josi Steinfeld 02/07/2024Un Giorno Di Regno Ossia Il Finto Stanislao Verdi was commissioned to compose Regno, a comedy, his second opera for...
Tosca Rivka Jacobson 10/06/2024Dictators are as common as guns; their henchmen are widespread like bullets. Both are commonplace in every era. In today’s...
The Barber of Seville René Weis FRSA 07/06/2024This joyous new production of Rossini’ opera buffa masterpiece soars above the pack. Cecilia Stinton’s brilliantly creative directing renders her Barber...
Reviewer's rating Aureliano in Palmira Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023The public realised that 21-year-old Rossini was something special in 1813 after the success of Signor Bruschino and Italiana in...
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...
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,...
