La Bohème Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025 1689Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...
Carmen Olivia Hurton 11/10/2025 1427This year marks Carmen’s 150th birthday. When it first premiered at the Opera-Comique in March 1875, the audience were primed...
Aida Josi Steinfeld 09/10/2025 1501Opéra Bastille — Paris’s second opera house and a 1989 state-of-the-art building with superb acoustics — is literally crumbling. The...
Cinderella (La Cenerentola) Josi Steinfeld 29/09/2025 1534Rossini composed La Cenerentola in just 24 days, following the triumph of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Its premiere in Rome...
MATEO – Opera Tango Josi Steinfeld 21/09/2025 1659In the atmospheric open-air amphitheatre of Monaco’s 14th-century Fort Antoine, MartÃn Palmieri’s Mateo emerged as a striking fusion of opera...
Lucia di Lammermoor Owen Davies 15/09/2025 1845This bloodthirsty melodrama from Donizetti – a composer at the height of his considerable powers – was first staged in...
L’Italiana in Algeri Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Josi Steinfeld 05/09/2025 3284There was already a buzz outside the Teatro Rossini before curtain-up. Fifteen minutes before the performance, an old smoking VW...
Semele Soyoon Koo 30/08/2025 1041Handel’s Semele (1744) was met with controversy at its premiere for presenting secular opera in the guise of sacred oratorio....
Les Incrédules (The Incredulous) Thibault Elie 31/07/2025 2406With Les Incrédules, director Samuel Achache returns to the Festival d’Avignon with his most ambitious project to date: a two-hour...
La Traviata Rivka Jacobson 25/07/2025 2311La Traviata—a romantic-sounding Italian title that translates bluntly as ‘The Fallen Woman’—tells the story of Violetta, a high-class courtesan kept...
