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...
Reviewer's score Das Rheingold Owen Davies 28/09/2023A new Ring Cycle at Covent Garden is bound to be big news. A production that is planned by Barrie...
Reviewer's rating L’elisir D’Amore The Elixir of Love Josi Steinfeld 27/09/2023L’Elisir d’Amore, composed in six weeks, is one of the most performed of Donizetti’s operas, and in the top 20...
Reviewer's rating La Forza del Destino Josi Steinfeld 25/09/2023La Forza del Destino is a Verdi masterpiece. Extraordinary melodies, extreme emotions, violence, confrontation, challenging main roles, and great choruses....
Reviewer's rating Aureliano in Palmira Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023The public realised that 21-year-old Rossini was something special in 1813 after the success of Signor Bruschino and Italiana in...
Reviewer's rating Eduardo E Cristina Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023Rossini had under a month to compose Eduardo. Eduardo was a ‘centone’(patchwork) opera, as 19/26 numbers were ‘borrowed’ from earlier...
Reviewer's rating Adelaide of Burgundy Adelaide di Borgogna Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023Rossini’s 23rd opera, composed under frantic time restraints, for the Carnival season in 1817, followed several 1817 triumphs – Cenerentola,...
Reviewer's rating Cephale and Procris Owen Davies 02/09/2023Marcio da Silva’s Ensemble Orquesta (OE) returns to Grimeborn with another baroque gem. De la Guerre was a harpsichord virtuoso...
