Reviewer's Rating Carmen Grace Creaton-Barber 12/02/2018If you have any preconceptions of Carmen or, in fact, the entire discipline of opera you shall find them completely...
Reviewer's Rating Satyagraha Tim Hochstrasser 06/02/2018This is the third revival of a landmark 2007 production, the first in the UK of this popular opera. It...
Reviewer's Rating Rigoletto Aparna Halpé 30/01/2018Alexander Neef, General Director of the COC, describes Verdi’s Rigoletto as “incendiary”. He situates this production within a historical moment...
Reviewer's Rating Guillaume Tell Alessandro Zummo 27/01/2018The opening night of a new season at the Teatro Massimo is always an event for the entire city of...
Reviewer's Rating Tosca Tim Hochstrasser 18/01/2018What is there new to say about Floria Tosca’s journey from piety and artistry through to a final symbolic confrontation...
Reviewer's Rating The Return of Ulysses Owen Davies 15/01/2018This sublime opera was written by an aging Monteverdi for performance at the Venice Carnival in 1640. In this year,...
Reviewer's Rating Barber of Seville Owen Davies 11/01/2018The Barber of Seville is a remarkable opera. Now more than 200 years old – it was premiered in 1816...
Reviewer's Rating Midsummer Night’s Dream Shmuel Ben-Tovim 10/01/2018This review must begin with applause to people whose names do not appear in the list of credits below: the...
Reviewer's Rating Salome Tim Hochstrasser 09/01/2018Salome was Strauss’ breakthrough opera and it has all the hallmarks of his early style – lush voluptuous writing for...
Reviewer's Rating Un Ballo In Maschera Alina Bottez 23/12/2017Verdi’s opera had a tumultuous fate: Somma’s libretto after Scribe’s Gustave III was censored by the Naples authorities...
