Reviewer's rating La Forza del Destino Josi Steinfeld 25/09/2023 1218La 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 02/09/2023 1682The 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 02/09/2023 1493Rossini 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 02/09/2023 1408Rossini’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 02/09/2023 1391Marcio 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 01/09/2023 1604Il 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 25/08/2023 1135Turandot – 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 19/08/2023 1166Another clever aspect of this evening was the timing of the double bill. The first half was played in daylight...
Reviewer's rating Acis and Galataea Mel Cooper 19/08/2023 975This opera, along with the second half of a double bill, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, turned into an evening of...
Reviewer's rating The Rake’s Progress Miho Uchida 18/08/2023 1199We are introduced to a colourful and funky version of The Rake’s Progress from the onset; Tom Rakewell’s Grecian tragedy...
