Face to face with John von Düffel: German theatre and adaptation of novels for the stage Rivka Jacobson Interviews 04/06/2015
Reviewer's rating Cecilia Bartoli and Lang Lang (Recital) Josi Steinfeld 04/04/2024One must travel to Europe to hear her. Bartoli sang the shepherd boy in Tosca aged nine. She sang Rosina...
Reviewer's rating La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) Josi Steinfeld 28/03/2024Donizetti wrote La fille du régiment in Paris. It became a popular success mainly due to the famous tenor aria...
Reviewer's Rating Rolando Villazón concert Josi Steinfeld 22/03/2024Rolando Villazón, the Mexican tenor with big hair, big eyebrows and big heart, catapulted into the operatic scene, winning the...
Reviewer's rating Cavalleria Rusticana & Gianni Schicchi (double bill) Josi Steinfeld 01/03/2024Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni, won an important competition for a one-act opera. For the first time, opera featured the lower...
Reviewer's rating Don Carlo Josi Steinfeld 02/12/2023Verdi’s Don Carlo is the longest and arguably the greatest Verdi opera, based on Schiller’s play set in Phillip II’s...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere di Seviglia Josi Steinfeld 04/05/2023Five stars are not sufficient for probably the best production I have ever seen! Its debut was last year in...
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 La Traviata Josi Steinfeld 25/03/2023Many of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas expose prejudice against social outcasts. Rigoletto – a hunchback, Il Trovatore – gypsies, La Forza...
Reviewer rating Andrea Chénier, Josi Steinfeld 03/03/2023Umberto Giordano used the true story of the poet Andrea Chénier, guillotined in 1794 aged 32, three days before the...
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...