Reviewer's rating Lucia di Lammermoor Yael Shuv 17/01/2024 2720Over the years Hollywood has accustomed us to movies that speak English, no matter where the story takes place –...
Elektra Josi Steinfeld 16/01/2024 1168Elektra is Richard Strauss’ first collaboration with Hofmannsthal, and the second of Strauss’ modernist operas – the first was Salome...
Reviewer's rating Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci Josi Steinfeld 05/12/2023 1579Cavalleria Rusticana was a late entry for an 1888 competition for young Italian composers who had not staged a performance,...
Reviewer's rating Don Carlo Josi Steinfeld 02/12/2023 3586Verdi’s Don Carlo is the longest and arguably the greatest Verdi opera, based on Schiller’s play set in Phillip II’s...
Reviewer's rating Ariodante Owen Davies 25/11/2023 1250I came to this performance of Ariodante feeling that I had seen enough Handel operas for a while. I left...
Reviewer's rating Jeptha Josi Steinfeld 13/11/2023 1057ROH’s seasons of Handel’s Covent Garden Operas continues with Jeptha. Religious subjects were banned from performance in 1752, thus Jeptha,...
Reviewer's rating 7 Deaths of Maria Callas Josi Steinfeld 11/11/2023 1133Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalougeropoulos, better known as Maria Callas was born on 2nd December 1923. Plump and awkward, she...
Reviewer's rating Incoronazione Di Poppea The Coronation of Poppea Josi Steinfeld 05/10/2023 1118Opera was still taking baby steps with Monteverdi’s final work, – the immorally racy, sexy Incoronazione di Poppea. First performed...
Reviewer's score Das Rheingold Owen Davies 28/09/2023 932A 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 27/09/2023 1063L’Elisir d’Amore, composed in six weeks, is one of the most performed of Donizetti’s operas, and in the top 20...
