Reviewer's rating Mansfield Park Owen Davies 28/07/2022As a lover of Jane Austen’s novels, I have always felt that they do not offer the sort of dramatic...
Reviewer's rating Antonio e Cleopatra Owen Davies 26/07/2022Johann Hasse was one of the most popular opera composers of the eighteenth century. He died in 1783 (just 8...
Reviewer's rating Aida אאידה Yael Shuv 28/06/2022“If my dream might come true! An army of brave men, led by me – victory, and the applause of...
REviewer's rating Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) Mel Cooper 27/06/2022The Longborough Festival Opera is performing the opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in what...
Reviewer's ratinge The Wreckers Miho Uchida 23/06/2022Glyndebourne Festival stages a rarely performed opera, The Wreckers, by British composer Ethel Smyth. It is a landmark production, the...
Reviewer's rating Siegfried Mel Cooper 07/06/2022Henry James when talking about reviewing books or music or drama was insistent that one must start by accepting “the...
Reviewer's rating Le Barbier de Séville Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/06/2022This season at the Opera Bastille nearly comes to its end with a refreshing production of Gioacchino Rossini’s opera buffa...
Reviewer's rating Eugene Onegin Tim Hochstrasser 03/06/2022Tchaikovsky very much wanted to write opera for adults about real characters, avoiding implausible operatic devices and melodramatic conceits. In...
Reviewer's rating Samson et Dalila Rivka Jacobson 29/05/2022The Book of Judges devotes three chapters to the story of Samson. The composer, Camille Saint-Saëns, and the librettist Ferdinand...
Reviewer's rating Alcina אלצ’ינה Yael Shuv 17/05/2022Alcina, written in 1735, is one of George Frideric Handel’s more popular operas – he composed 42 of them. Inspired...
