Wozzeck Miho Uchida 23/11/2025This tragedy-driven opera, based on Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck (1837), tells the story of Wozzeck, a soldier brutally mistreated by the...
Partenope Josi Steinfeld 23/11/2025Handel’s first comic opera Partenope was once dismissed as too frivolous. It enjoyed only modest success in its day and...
Dido and Aeneas Yael Shuv 19/11/2025Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is among the most frequently performed Baroque operas. It is short, requires a modest cast,...
La Bohème Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...
Carmen Olivia Hurton 11/10/2025This year marks Carmen’s 150th birthday. When it first premiered at the Opera-Comique in March 1875, the audience were primed...
Aida Josi Steinfeld 09/10/2025Opéra Bastille — Paris’s second opera house and a 1989 state-of-the-art building with superb acoustics — is literally crumbling. The...
Cinderella (La Cenerentola) Josi Steinfeld 29/09/2025Rossini composed La Cenerentola in just 24 days, following the triumph of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Its premiere in Rome...
MATEO – Opera Tango Josi Steinfeld 21/09/2025In the atmospheric open-air amphitheatre of Monaco’s 14th-century Fort Antoine, MartÃn Palmieri’s Mateo emerged as a striking fusion of opera...
Lucia di Lammermoor Owen Davies 15/09/2025This bloodthirsty melodrama from Donizetti – a composer at the height of his considerable powers – was first staged in...
L’Italiana in Algeri Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Josi Steinfeld 05/09/2025There was already a buzz outside the Teatro Rossini before curtain-up. Fifteen minutes before the performance, an old smoking VW...
