Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022 4759For 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 11/08/2022 4478Every 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 29/07/2022 1180Rossini 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 28/07/2022 1909Monteverdi 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 28/07/2022 1231As 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 26/07/2022 1120Johann 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 2998“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 27/06/2022 1677The Longborough Festival Opera is performing the opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in what...
Reviewer's ratinge The Wreckers Miho Uchida 23/06/2022 1294Glyndebourne 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 07/06/2022 1741Henry James when talking about reviewing books or music or drama was insistent that one must start by accepting “the...
