Reviewer's rating The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) Shadi Seifouri 30/06/2019 2333Regarded as the first of many successful collaborations between Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro is...
Reviewer's Rating Cosi fan tutte Owen Davies 30/06/2019 1943Mozart produced three great operas with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Cosi fan Tutte was first performed in Vienna in 1790...
Reviewer's Rating Anna Bolena Mel Cooper 26/06/2019 2526Anna Bolena is one of the great operas of the Italian romantic era. Historically, it was innovative both musically and...
Reviewer's rating Boris Godunov Rivka Jacobson 24/06/2019 1825‘Made in Britain” is written all over this revival production of the Russian opera ‘Boris Godunov’. Fittingly, even the name...
Reviewer's rating Nabucco Rivka Jacobson 21/06/2019 4323Nabucco is Verdi’s third opera but first triumph. It propelled the young composer from desperation to elation. The plot consists...
Reviewer's Rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 21/06/2019 2673Mozart produced The Magic Flute in the last year of his life, 1791. Europe was in turmoil. In England, The...
Reviewer's Rating Cendrillon Tim Hochstrasser 18/06/2019 3071Cendrillon is Jules Massenet’s late nineteenth-century version of the Cinderella story, which takes the gist of the familiar fairy story...
Reviewer's Rating The Diary of One Who Disappeared Shadi Seifouri 08/06/2019 2153Burdened by a forbidden muse, Leos Janacek’s 1919 song cycle, The Diary of One Who Disappeared, serves as an allegoric...
Reviewer's rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Tim Hochstrasser 08/06/2019 1708This production represents Opera Holland Park at its best in making a fully persuasive case for an opera that often...
reviewer's rating Manon Lescaut Shadi Seifouri 06/06/2019 2187Opera Holland Park, famed for its nuanced take on opera outdoors, opened its summer season with Puccini’s pivotal 1893 opera,...
