Reviewer's rating Werther Rivka Jacobson 19/09/2019 2408Can 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 15/09/2019 2888I 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 15/09/2019 3175La 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 04/09/2019 2164Bellini’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 20/08/2019 5201Arguably, 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 15/08/2019 6527Cutting 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 15/08/2019 5259This 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 15/08/2019 2136Count Ory is a comic opera by Rossini that rarely gets performed today. Written for performance in Paris in 1828,...
Reviewer's rating Silk Moth Grimeborn 2019 Owen Davies 15/08/2019 2098This strange trilogy is made up of two short pieces – The Heart’s Ear and Bel Canto – and a...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2019 6151This famous opera by Handel, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 April 1735, has always been...
