Reviewer's Rating The Passion of Christ (Passione di Cristo) Enza De Francisci 04/04/2024Sacri rappresentazioni della passione di Cristo or Sacred representations of the Passion of Christ For someone who has researched Sicilian...
80 Madama Butterfly Alessandro Zummo 23/02/2024★ ★ ★ ★ In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Puccini’s death in 1924, the Teatro Massimo di Palermo...
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...
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 L’infanzia di Orlando Orlando’s childhood Enza De Francisci 08/06/2023The myth of Orlando (Roland) has captured the imagination from as far back as the Middle Ages. The plays centres...
Reviewer's rating Julius Caesar Rivka Jacobson 10/12/2021Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma opens its new season with the world’s premier of Julius Caesar, a fitting subject to this...
Reviewer's rating Tosca Rivka Jacobson 08/12/2021This is one of the most performed operas. It was first staged in this opera house with the same set...
Reviewer's Rating Falstaff Alessandro Zummo 28/02/2020Verdi’s last opera is a real artistic testament to the career of a composer who until the very end never...
