Guillaume Tell Miho Uchida 04/12/2024Rossini’s final opera, Guillaume Tell, was recently staged at The New National Theatre Tokyo in its original French for the...
Reviewer's Rating Immunity Austin Fimmano 23/11/2024It’s a Friday night in uptown Manhattan, and we are being ushered into a crypt lit only by candlelight. It’s...
L’elisir d’amore שיקוי אהבה Yael Shuv 12/11/2024Gaetano Donizetti’s 1832 opera buffa is one of the most beloved works of the bel canto composer. In 1997, director...
The Sleepwalker (La Sonnambula) Miho Uchida 14/10/2024Bárbara Lluch’s latest production of Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the New National Theatre Tokyo is an absolute triumph, a veritable...
Banquet Capital Thibault Elie 30/09/2024Set in 1848, a time when France is on the brink of its third revolution after the upheavals of 1789...
Reviewer's Rating mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] Austin Fimmano 21/09/2024On one of the first nights in September with a whisper of chill in the air, a group sets out...
Ermione Josi Steinfeld 30/08/2024Ermione is the sixth of nine operas Rossini composed for the San Carlo in Naples and one of the biggest...
The Valkyrie (Die Walküre) Miho Uchida 26/08/2024Valentin Schwarz’s production of The Ring of the Nibelung has returned to the Bayreuth Festival this year. As predicted, there...
Bianca e Falliero (Bianca and Falliero) Josi Steinfeld 23/08/2024Bianca and Falliero, Rossini’s 30th opera and the fourth composed in 1819, had an impressive initial run of 39 performances—the...
The Barber of Seville Josi Steinfeld 22/08/2024Pesaro is the Italian Capital of Culture 2024, and to mark the occasion, the city is presenting four operas instead...
