Reviewer's rating Les Indes Galantes Owen Davies 17/02/2022 1926Marcio da Silva’s groundbreaking company Ensemble Orquesta (EO) is fast developing an enviable reputation for bringing rare baroque treasures to...
Reviewer's rating Manon Miho Uchida 14/02/2022 1938Manon is Jules Massenet’s most popular opera, and along with Carmen and Faust, stands as one of French opera’s iconic...
Reviewer's rating Yevgeni Onegin Yael Shuv 08/01/2022 1984Yevgeni Onegin is a truly great opera, titled after a male character that inflicts tragedy. Whereas most heroes fall desperately...
Reviewer's rating Nabucco Tim Hochstrasser 21/12/2021 1378This opera was Verdi’s breakthrough work in 1842, setting the pattern for many of his preoccupations and emphases in the...
Reviewer's rating Julius Caesar Rivka Jacobson 10/12/2021 1849Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma opens its new season with the world’s premier of Julius Caesar, a fitting subject to this...
Reviewer's rating Tosca Rivka Jacobson 08/12/2021 2089This is one of the most performed operas. It was first staged in this opera house with the same set...
Reviewer's rating Macbeth Tim Hochstrasser 17/11/2021 1349‘Macbeth’ is the first of Verdi’s three settings of Shakespeare’s plays, each of them contrasted and remarkable in their own...
Reviewer's rating The Bear Tim Hochstrasser 09/11/2021 1855Opera Holland Park has not gone into its winter hibernation by any means. They are currently streaming a production of...
Reviewer's rating The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 07/11/2021 1528Mozart’s masterpiece, the Marriage of Figaro, is a work of such musical beauty and comic invention that it can always...
Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute חליל הקסם Yael Shuv 06/11/2021 3177Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” offers its own challenges. Along with some of the most beautiful music ever composed, there are...
