Reviewer's Rating Midsummer Night’s Dream Shmuel Ben-Tovim 10/01/2018This review must begin with applause to people whose names do not appear in the list of credits below: the...
Reviewer's Rating Salome Tim Hochstrasser 09/01/2018Salome was Strauss’ breakthrough opera and it has all the hallmarks of his early style – lush voluptuous writing for...
Reviewer's Rating Un Ballo In Maschera Alina Bottez 23/12/2017Verdi’s opera had a tumultuous fate: Somma’s libretto after Scribe’s Gustave III was censored by the Naples authorities...
Reviewer's Rating Semiramide Tim Hochstrasser 21/12/2017Rossini loved food. A gourmand and gourmet after whom many dishes were named, one of the few times he is...
Reviewer's Rating Rigoletto Rivka Jacobson 21/12/2017The Royal Opera’s revival of David McVicar’s 2001 production of Rigoletto fittingly dedicated to the most sought-after Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky...
Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Irina Antesberger [Age: 16] 18/12/2017It is always exciting to learn what directors may see in what some call “the opera of operas”. Staging Mozart`s “Don Giovanni” is a huge challenge...
Reviewer's Rating Rusticana / Pagliacci Owen Davies 11/12/2017This revival of Michieletto’s splendid production of “Cav and Pag” provides a wonderful evening of ‘verismo’ opera. We get singing...
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Owen Davies 01/12/2017he splendid OperaUpClose team has come up with another reworked version of an operatic classic – and it is a...
Reviewer's Rating Lucia di Lammermoor Tim Hochstrasser 03/11/2017his famous opera regained its place in the repertory thanks to the role it played in the careers of Callas...
Reviewer's Rating Rodelinda Mel Cooper 28/10/2017efore I even get around to talking about this very intelligent and moving production of Handel’s masterful opera Rodelinda, I...
