Reviewer's score Das Rheingold Owen Davies 28/09/2023A new Ring Cycle at Covent Garden is bound to be big news. A production that is planned by Barrie...
Reviewer's rating L’elisir D’Amore The Elixir of Love Josi Steinfeld 27/09/2023L’Elisir d’Amore, composed in six weeks, is one of the most performed of Donizetti’s operas, and in the top 20...
Reviewer's rating La Forza del Destino Josi Steinfeld 25/09/2023La Forza del Destino is a Verdi masterpiece. Extraordinary melodies, extreme emotions, violence, confrontation, challenging main roles, and great choruses....
Reviewer's rating Aureliano in Palmira Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023The public realised that 21-year-old Rossini was something special in 1813 after the success of Signor Bruschino and Italiana in...
Reviewer's rating Eduardo E Cristina Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023Rossini had under a month to compose Eduardo. Eduardo was a ‘centone’(patchwork) opera, as 19/26 numbers were ‘borrowed’ from earlier...
Reviewer's rating Adelaide of Burgundy Adelaide di Borgogna Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023Rossini’s 23rd opera, composed under frantic time restraints, for the Carnival season in 1817, followed several 1817 triumphs – Cenerentola,...
Reviewer's rating Cephale and Procris Owen Davies 02/09/2023Marcio da Silva’s Ensemble Orquesta (OE) returns to Grimeborn with another baroque gem. De la Guerre was a harpsichord virtuoso...
The Journey to Reims Il viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2023Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825,...
Reviewer's rating Turandot Owen Davies 25/08/2023Turandot – Puccini’s final opera – is a difficult work to like. Of course. it has some glorious dramatic moments...
Reviewer's rating Dido and Aeneas Mel Cooper 19/08/2023Another clever aspect of this evening was the timing of the double bill. The first half was played in daylight...
