Reviewer's rating Opera in Song: The Marriage of Figaro Shadi Seifouri 28/07/2021Bringing the much revered “Opera in Song” series to a close was Holland Park’s homage to Mozart’s The Marriage of...
Reviewer's rating Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Ulysses Returns Home) Mel Cooper 16/07/2021This truly important production of the Monteverdi early (1641) opera Il Ritorno d’Ullise in Patria (Ulysses Returns Home) is a...
Reviewer's rating La Bohème Shadi Seifouri 28/06/2021Richard Jones’s production of La bohème has become the poster child of London’s Covent Garden. Studded with festive tropes of...
Reviewer's rating L’Egisto Owen Davies 13/06/2021Hampstead Garden Opera has returned to the stage with a production of a rarely-performed baroque opera from 1643 by Francesco...
Reviewer's rating Die Walküre Now streamed online for free. see below Mel Cooper 12/06/2021BRECHTIAN WAGNER It was a double privilege to be invited to see Wagner’s DIE WALKÜRE in a semi-staged production at...
Reviewer's rating L’Elisir d’Amore Mel Cooper 08/06/2020I’ve just been watching the streaming of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore from the Met and wish it was going to be...
Reviewer's Rating Carmen Owen Davies 05/03/2020This splendid production of Carmen shows off the substantial talents of the Welsh National Opera team at their best. It...
Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 05/03/2020Some say that Mozart’s revolutionary opera, The Marriage of Figaro, should really be called The Marriage of Susanna. Welsh National...
Reviewer's rating Opera Undone: Tosca & La Boheme Rivka Jacobson 02/03/2020Take two of Puccini’s most popular operas – Tosca and La Boheme and reduce them into one hour each, edit...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere Di Saviglia Shmuel Ben-Tovim 01/03/2020When I first spotted “Il Barbiere Di Saviglia” on the yearly programme of the Israeli Opera, my immediate reaction was:...
