REviewer's rating Madama Butterfly Alessandro Zummo 22/09/2019The current production of Madama Butterfly at the Opera de Paris is the latest revival of the work created by...
Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Enza De Francisci 20/09/2019Don Juan is a well-known legend whose legacy has remained owing predominantly to all its many variations and adaptations. This...
Reviewer's rating Werther Rivka Jacobson 19/09/2019Can you imagine your novel being universally admired throughout Europe and wherever Western Culture prevailed as the most popular of...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2019I must confess, that one of the main reasons I so wanted to see this production of Rigoletto at the...
Reviewer's rating L’elisir d’amore (‘The Elixir of Love’) Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2019La Scala’s audience will not tolerate mediocracy from their leading singers nor from their orchestra. They love their operas and...
Reviewer's Rating I Capuleti e i Montecchi Owen Davies 04/09/2019Bellini’s operas marks the transition from eighteenth century Opera Seria to the bel canto operas of the early nineteenth century....
Reviewer's rating Tristan und Isolde Bayreuth 2019 Tony Cooper 20/08/2019Arguably, one of the greatest works ever written to pure erotic love echoing the legendary days of King Arthur, Tristan...
Reviewer's rating Médée Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 15/08/2019Cutting edge and provocative, this year’s new production of Cherubini’s Médée performed at Salzburg Festspiele is notable for the originality...
Reviewer's rating Lohengrin Bayreuth Festival 2019 Tony Cooper 15/08/2019This production of Wagner’s Lohengrin by Yuval Sharon – born in Chicago in 1979 to Israeli parents and Bayreuth’s first...
Reviewer's rating Count Ory Grimeborn 2019 Owen Davies 15/08/2019Count Ory is a comic opera by Rossini that rarely gets performed today. Written for performance in Paris in 1828,...
