Reviewer's rating Aleko & Cavalleria Rusticana אלקו | קוולריה רוסטיקנה Yael Shuv 18/01/2023Pietro Mascagni’s short opera Cavalleria Rusticana is often paired with the similar length Pagliacci. As Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera was staged...
Reviewer's rating The Age of Reinvention L’invention de nos vies Chloe Darnaud 18/12/2022The Age of Reinvention is an audacious, thought-provoking, fast-paced, thrilling play. Adapted from Karine Tuil’s best seller (L’Invention de Nos...
Reviewer's rating Les Contes d’Hoffmann Yael Shuv 10/11/2022Jacques Offenbach’s beloved opera, inspired by the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann, is a challenging piece of theatre to...
Reviewer's rating Gabriel Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 11/10/2022The beginning of this new season at the Comédie Française offers a look at George Sand’s work – a 19th...
Reviewer's rating Michael – A Temporary Name מיכאל שם זמני Yael Shuv 10/09/2022Not an opera. Not a play. Not a concert. These declarations are highlighted on Michael Temporary Name’s website. So what...
Reviewer's rating Aida Alessandro Zummo 17/08/2022Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience...
Reviewer's rating Káťa Kabanová Salzburg Festival 2022 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2022“So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing...
Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere di Siviglia Salzburger Festspiele Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally...
Reviewer's rating One Song Thibault Elie 26/07/2022Few shows have ever sparked the audience of the Festival d’Avignon so passionately. Miet Warlop, a 44-year-old Belgian artist, and...
