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...
Reviewer's rating Jeptha Josi Steinfeld 13/11/2023ROH’s seasons of Handel’s Covent Garden Operas continues with Jeptha. Religious subjects were banned from performance in 1752, thus Jeptha,...
Reviewer's rating 7 Deaths of Maria Callas Josi Steinfeld 11/11/2023Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalougeropoulos, better known as Maria Callas was born on 2nd December 1923. Plump and awkward, she...
Reviewer's rating Incoronazione Di Poppea The Coronation of Poppea Josi Steinfeld 05/10/2023Opera was still taking baby steps with Monteverdi’s final work, – the immorally racy, sexy Incoronazione di Poppea. First performed...
