Orpheus & Eurydice Wilder Gutterson 17/10/2026 147When a small opera company has the temerity to commission a new version of a beloved classical opera, it must...
Il Turco in Italia Miho Uchida 08/10/2026 475The New National Theatre Tokyo opens its new season with Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, a co-production between Madrid’s Teatro...
Cavalleria rusticana Alessandro Zummo 15/09/2026 362Cavalleria rusticana carries a danger that its own success has made almost inevitable: collapsing into a postcard of an imaginary...
Aida Alina Bottez 08/08/2026 588Aida, Arena di Verona: A dazzling crystal vision Verdi’s Aida was commissioned for Egypt in connection with the opening of...
Tosca Yael Shuv 20/07/2026 582Floria Tosca is one of opera’s most complex and compelling heroines. Unlike the innocent victims who populate so many operas,...
Die Frau ohne Schatten Alessandro Zummo 12/07/2026 906Die Frau ohne Schatten (The woman without a shadow) is the fifth and most ambitious collaboration between Richard Strauss and...
Accabadora Alessandro Zummo 10/07/2026 572The Sardinian word accabadora comes from the root of the Spanish verb acabar, “to finish,” and denotes the woman who...
Die Zauberflöte Alessandro Zummo 09/07/2026 891Mozart’s final opera, premiered at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 30 September 1791 just weeks before his...
Requiem Alessandro Zummo 08/07/2026 682Mozart’s Requiem is inseparable from the mythology of its own making. Composed in the shadow of the composer’s death in...
Orlando Josi Steinfeld 06/06/2026 686Handel’s Orlando, inspired by Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, centres on a heroic knight driven to destructive jealousy. Orlando loves Angelica, Queen...
