The Elixir of Love René Weis FRSA 16/11/2024Donizetti’s comic opera The Elixir of Love is the quintessential light-touch, bel canto opera buffa. It is a perennial favourite...
Eugene Onegin Owen Davies 13/11/2024Eugene Onegin is a very Russian opera. Premiered in Moscow in March 1879, it is set first in a remote country...
Maria de Rudenz Owen Davies 06/11/2024Famed as Donizetti’s greatest flop after its premier in Venice in 1838, Maria de Rudenz is given a rare production...
Rigoletto René Weis FRSA 31/10/2024This is the 14th outing at the ENO of Jonathan Miller’s 1982 Godfather production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. The Renaissance Court of...
Fidelio Marc Berman 15/10/2024Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, is often seen as a “problem” piece. It has wonderful music, starting with the overture so...
Eugene Onegin Josi Steinfeld 03/10/2024Eugene Onegin tells the tale of the Larin sisters—Tatyana, a romantic dreamer, and Olga, a playful flirt—living on their estate....
Suor Angelica Josi Steinfeld 01/10/2024In Puccini’s centenary year, it is fitting that a lesser-known work takes center stage. Suor Angelica is the middle opera...
La Bohème Sofia Moran 29/09/2024La Bohème, is a classic opera by Puccini, and hopefully my first of many. This version, set in 1930s impoverished...
La Rondine (The Swallow) Josi Steinfeld 05/08/2024The Gattières Opus Opera Festival in a small hillside village behind Nice has been a well-kept secret for 34 years!...
Samson Alessandro Zummo 16/07/2024In 1733, the great philosopher Voltaire and the renowned composer Jean-Philippe Rameau created an opera inspired by the Bible (Book...
