Reviewer's rating Innocence Hafiza Butt 06/05/2023Even though it is a love story culminating in a marriage that begins this tale, Innocence is not a love...
Aida Josi Steinfeld 05/05/2023Aida was conceived by Verdi as the grandest of grand opera for Cairo in 1871 as a great spectacle. It...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere di Seviglia Josi Steinfeld 04/05/2023Five stars are not sufficient for probably the best production I have ever seen! Its debut was last year in...
Reviewer's rating L’Orfeo Opéra-marionnettes Josi Steinfeld 22/04/2023This sole Monaco performance was unique as it was performed entirely by puppets from the renowned Carlo Colla puppet theatre....
Reviewer's rating The Dead CityDie Tote Stadt Josi Steinfeld 05/04/2023Shame on the Arts Council for effectively reducing London to one opera house, making it the poor man of Europe,...
Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 15/03/2023Mozart’s Magic Flute is one of those operas that brings out extreme views amongst opera lovers. For some it’s a...
Reviewer's rating Turandot Josi Steinfeld 14/03/2023Puccini died before completing Turandot; music after the death of Liù was composed by Franco Alfano. At its 1926 première,...
Reviewer's rating Lucrezia Borgia Owen Davies 07/03/2023Despite all the noise and nonsense seeping out of the Arts Council about opera funding, it is great to be...
Reviewer rating Il Viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 06/03/2023Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825,...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Josi Steinfeld 28/02/2023Monte Carlo Opera has a new, and for the first time, female artistic director, the Queen of Coloratura, Cecilia Bartoli. With...
