La clemenza di Tito Josi Steinfeld 03/02/2025 3371Mozart was commissioned to compose La Clemenza di Tito, (The Clemency of Titus), in 1791 by impresario Domenico Guardasoni in...
Reviewer's rating Cecilia Bartoli and Lang Lang (Recital) Josi Steinfeld 04/04/2024 3785One must travel to Europe to hear her. Bartoli sang the shepherd boy in Tosca aged nine. She sang Rosina...
Reviewer's rating La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) Josi Steinfeld 28/03/2024 3585Donizetti wrote La fille du régiment in Paris. It became a popular success mainly due to the famous tenor aria...
Reviewer's Rating Rolando Villazón concert Josi Steinfeld 22/03/2024 3586Rolando Villazón, the Mexican tenor with big hair, big eyebrows and big heart, catapulted into the operatic scene, winning the...
Reviewer's rating Cavalleria Rusticana & Gianni Schicchi (double bill) Josi Steinfeld 01/03/2024 3346Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni, won an important competition for a one-act opera. For the first time, opera featured the lower...
Reviewer's rating Don Carlo Josi Steinfeld 02/12/2023 3585Verdi’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 Il Barbiere di Seviglia Josi Steinfeld 04/05/2023 3636Five 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 22/04/2023 3511This sole Monaco performance was unique as it was performed entirely by puppets from the renowned Carlo Colla puppet theatre....
Reviewer's rating La Traviata Josi Steinfeld 25/03/2023 4092Many of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas expose prejudice against social outcasts. Rigoletto – a hunchback, Il Trovatore – gypsies, La Forza...
Reviewer rating Andrea Chénier, Josi Steinfeld 03/03/2023 3550Umberto Giordano used the true story of the poet Andrea Chénier, guillotined in 1794 aged 32, three days before the...
