Reviewer's ratinge The Wreckers Miho Uchida 23/06/2022Glyndebourne Festival stages a rarely performed opera, The Wreckers, by British composer Ethel Smyth. It is a landmark production, the...
Reviewer's rating Siegfried Mel Cooper 07/06/2022Henry James when talking about reviewing books or music or drama was insistent that one must start by accepting “the...
Reviewer's rating Le Barbier de Séville Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/06/2022This season at the Opera Bastille nearly comes to its end with a refreshing production of Gioacchino Rossini’s opera buffa...
Reviewer's rating Eugene Onegin Tim Hochstrasser 03/06/2022Tchaikovsky very much wanted to write opera for adults about real characters, avoiding implausible operatic devices and melodramatic conceits. In...
Reviewer's rating Samson et Dalila Rivka Jacobson 29/05/2022The Book of Judges devotes three chapters to the story of Samson. The composer, Camille Saint-Saëns, and the librettist Ferdinand...
Reviewer's rating Alcina אלצ’ינה Yael Shuv 17/05/2022Alcina, written in 1735, is one of George Frideric Handel’s more popular operas – he composed 42 of them. Inspired...
Reviewer's Rating Lohengrin Tim Hochstrasser 22/04/2022‘Lohengrin’ was Wagner’s first clear masterpiece, but it is all the same an uneasy work, embodying both the culmination of...
Reviewer's rating Don Giovanni Owen Davies 10/04/2022This Welsh National Opera production of Don Giovanni has many merits – a fine orchestra, a bold design, some wonderful...
Reviewer's rating Peter Grimes Tim Hochstrasser 28/03/2022Since its first performance in 1945, ‘Peter Grimes’ has never left the repertory and its status as a masterpiece of...
Reviewer's rating The Barber of Seville Miho Uchida 11/03/2022Michael Shell’s production of The Barber of Seville contains more farces than usual, perhaps an attempt of the Atlanta Opera...
