Reviewer's rating L’amico Fritz Tim Hochstrasser 31/07/2021We are very familiar with Mascagni’s first opera ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’, from whose successful shadow he strove in vain to escape...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Mel Cooper 31/07/2021The Longborough Opera Festival ends its season every year with a show that highlights young professionals just starting their careers in...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Tim Hochstrasser 30/07/2021Rather like ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, this opera is fairly indestructible in any production. As environmental awareness has grown so...
Reviewer's rating Violetta and Tatyana Shadi Seifouri 29/07/2021Making a formidable return to music-making, Opera Holland Park’s latest recital series was a tonic for concert-goers. “Opera in Song”,...
Reviewer's rating Opera in Song: The Marriage of Figaro Shadi Seifouri 28/07/2021Bringing the much revered “Opera in Song” series to a close was Holland Park’s homage to Mozart’s The Marriage of...
Reviewer's rating Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Ulysses Returns Home) Mel Cooper 16/07/2021This truly important production of the Monteverdi early (1641) opera Il Ritorno d’Ullise in Patria (Ulysses Returns Home) is a...
Reviewer's rating La Bohème Shadi Seifouri 28/06/2021Richard Jones’s production of La bohème has become the poster child of London’s Covent Garden. Studded with festive tropes of...
Reviewer's rating L’Egisto Owen Davies 13/06/2021Hampstead Garden Opera has returned to the stage with a production of a rarely-performed baroque opera from 1643 by Francesco...
Reviewer's rating Die Walküre Now streamed online for free. see below Mel Cooper 12/06/2021BRECHTIAN WAGNER It was a double privilege to be invited to see Wagner’s DIE WALKÜRE in a semi-staged production at...
Reviewer's rating L’Elisir d’Amore Mel Cooper 08/06/2020I’ve just been watching the streaming of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore from the Met and wish it was going to be...
