Aida Josi Steinfeld 09/10/2025Opéra Bastille — Paris’s second opera house and a 1989 state-of-the-art building with superb acoustics — is literally crumbling. The...
La Bohème Nicole Pezza 03/10/2025Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème has always lived in contrasts — between warmth and cold, joy and despair, passion and fragility....
Priscilla Queen of the Desert Yael Shuv 02/10/2025Based on the 1994 cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, this jukebox musical — packed with...
MATEO – Opera Tango Josi Steinfeld 21/09/2025In the atmospheric open-air amphitheatre of Monaco’s 14th-century Fort Antoine, Martín Palmieri’s Mateo emerged as a striking fusion of opera...
A Streetcar Named Desire Yael Shuv 14/09/2025Earlier this year, I visited London and attended the heralded production of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Paul Mescal as...
L’Italiana in Algeri Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Josi Steinfeld 05/09/2025There was already a buzz outside the Teatro Rossini before curtain-up. Fifteen minutes before the performance, an old smoking VW...
La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Soirées Musicales Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro – 2025 Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2025Rossini was just 18 when Venice commissioned his first opera, the one-act comedy La Cambiale di Matrimonio (“The Marriage Contract”)....
Zelmira Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Josi Steinfeld 31/08/2025Rossini’s Zelmira, last composed for Naples in 1822, was once a staple at one of Europe’s great operatic centres, before...
La Distance Thibault Elie 05/08/2025Since taking over as director of the Festival d’Avignon, Tiago Rodrigues has staged one new play per year as part...
Les Incrédules (The Incredulous) Thibault Elie 31/07/2025With Les Incrédules, director Samuel Achache returns to the Festival d’Avignon with his most ambitious project to date: a two-hour...
