Orlando Owen Davies 30/07/2023First performed in London in 1733, Orlando is an opera seria based on part of Ariosto’s ballad, Orlando Furioso. Handel...
Reviewer's rating The Fairy Queen Mel Cooper 30/07/2023For their final production of the season, the one in which they give a platform for up-and-coming young talent, Longborough...
Reviewer's rating Il Re Pastore Owen Davies 26/07/2023Il Re Pastore, like many opera seria works, celebrates the wisdom and virtue of a noble monarch. Faced with a...
Reviewer's rating L’Orfeo The Legend of Orpheus Mel Cooper 13/07/2023Although I wasn’t entirely convinced by the actual production and the concept behind it, I found this performance of Monteverdi’s...
Reviewer's rating Don Carlo Josi Steinfeld 04/07/2023Verdi’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 L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) Mel Cooper 02/07/2023A hit show of 1832 has been given some of the updating that must convey to its audience something of...
Reviewer's rating. The Bartered Bride Mel Cooper 02/07/2023Garsington has revived its brilliant and fizzing production of The Bartered Bride by Smetana and it’s just as delightful and...
Reviewer's rating Armida Josi Steinfeld 27/06/2023Having seen Plzeň’s new traditional production of Armida three days before, I looked forward to seeing Prague’s new interpretation. The...
Reviewer's rating Werther Josi Steinfeld 23/06/2023Massenet’s Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’, published in 1774. Some, myself included, regard...
Reviewer's rating Hansel and Gretel Josi Steinfeld 21/06/2023Holland Park is a great setting to see an opera in the summer, and we are all lucky that the...
