Reviewer's rating The Dead CityDie Tote Stadt Josi Steinfeld 05/04/2023Shame on the Arts Council for effectively reducing London to one opera house, making it the poor man of Europe,...
Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 15/03/2023Mozart’s Magic Flute is one of those operas that brings out extreme views amongst opera lovers. For some it’s a...
Reviewer's rating Turandot Josi Steinfeld 14/03/2023Puccini died before completing Turandot; music after the death of Liù was composed by Franco Alfano. At its 1926 première,...
Reviewer's rating Lucrezia Borgia Owen Davies 07/03/2023Despite all the noise and nonsense seeping out of the Arts Council about opera funding, it is great to be...
Reviewer rating Il Viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 06/03/2023Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825,...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Josi Steinfeld 28/02/2023Monte Carlo Opera has a new, and for the first time, female artistic director, the Queen of Coloratura, Cecilia Bartoli. With...
Reviewer's rating Rusalka Rivka Jacobson 25/02/2023The new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka rides high on eco-friendly themes. The overture in the pit accompanies a pastoral scene...
Reviewer's rating Ariodante אריודנטה Yael Shuv 20/02/2023Lurcanio is in love with Dalinda, but she is in love with Polinesso, Duke of Albany, who is in love...
Reviewer's rating Aleko & Cavalleria Rusticana אלקו | קוולריה רוסטיקנה Yael Shuv 18/01/2023Pietro Mascagni’s short opera Cavalleria Rusticana is often paired with the similar length Pagliacci. As Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera was staged...
Reviewer's rating The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 04/12/2022The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a...
