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 Carmen Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 12/08/2022The Baseless Fabric company exists to bring theatre and opera to public spaces and to give new audiences the chance...
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 La Donna del Lago Owen Davies 29/07/2022Rossini wrote some 39 operas and is best remembered for his comedies, particularly The Barber of Seville, but his output...
Reviewer's rating Incoronazione di Poppea Owen Davies 28/07/2022Monteverdi was a venerable and celebrated church musician of 75 when he wrote Poppea. It was quite common for church...
Reviewer's rating Mansfield Park Owen Davies 28/07/2022As a lover of Jane Austen’s novels, I have always felt that they do not offer the sort of dramatic...
Reviewer's rating Antonio e Cleopatra Owen Davies 26/07/2022Johann Hasse was one of the most popular opera composers of the eighteenth century. He died in 1783 (just 8...
Reviewer's rating Aida אאידה Yael Shuv 28/06/2022“If my dream might come true! An army of brave men, led by me – victory, and the applause of...
REviewer's rating Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) Mel Cooper 27/06/2022The Longborough Festival Opera is performing the opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in what...
