Reviewer's rating Madama Butterfly Josi Steinfeld 25/03/2024On a trip to London, Giacomo Puccini saw a play by David Belasco called Madame Butterfly, taken from a short...
The Magic Flute Owen Davies 05/03/2024★ ★ ★ ★ The Magic Flute was the result of a collaboration between the great composer Mozart and his...
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 Tosca Josi Steinfeld 09/02/2024Puccini set Sardou’s play La Tosca to music after Sarah Bernhadt performed it in French, despite never understanding a word....
Reviewer's rating Jenůfa Josi Steinfeld 18/01/2024Leoš Janáček, born in Moravia, was educated mainly in Brno. He collected melodies from Moravia and Slovakia. Thanks to him folklore...
Reviewer's rating Lucia di Lammermoor Yael Shuv 17/01/2024Over the years Hollywood has accustomed us to movies that speak English, no matter where the story takes place –...
Elektra Josi Steinfeld 16/01/2024Elektra is Richard Strauss’ first collaboration with Hofmannsthal, and the second of Strauss’ modernist operas – the first was Salome...
Reviewer's rating Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci Josi Steinfeld 05/12/2023Cavalleria Rusticana was a late entry for an 1888 competition for young Italian composers who had not staged a performance,...
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 Ariodante Owen Davies 25/11/2023I came to this performance of Ariodante feeling that I had seen enough Handel operas for a while. I left...
