4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Ariodante Owen Davies 25/11/2023 I came to this performance of Ariodante feeling that I had seen enough Handel operas for a while. I left invigorated and ready to acknowledge once mor...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Jeptha Josi Steinfeld 13/11/2023 ROH’s seasons of Handel’s Covent Garden Operas continues with Jeptha. Religious subjects were banned from performance in 1752, thus Jeptha, was compos...
3.0★ ★ ★ 7 Deaths of Maria Callas Josi Steinfeld 11/11/2023 Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalougeropoulos, better known as Maria Callas was born on 2nd December 1923. Plump and awkward, she lost many kilos becoming...
2.5★ ★ Incoronazione Di Poppea The Coronation of Poppea Josi Steinfeld 05/10/2023 Opera was still taking baby steps with Monteverdi’s final work, - the immorally racy, sexy Incoronazione di Poppea. First performed in Venice during t...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Das Rheingold Owen Davies 28/09/2023 A new Ring Cycle at Covent Garden is bound to be big news. A production that is planned by Barrie Kosky, the most creative and controversial director ...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ L’elisir D’Amore The Elixir of Love Josi Steinfeld 27/09/2023 L’Elisir d’Amore, composed in six weeks, is one of the most performed of Donizetti’s operas, and in the top 20 of most performed operas worldwide. Don...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ La Forza del Destino Josi Steinfeld 25/09/2023 La Forza del Destino is a Verdi masterpiece. Extraordinary melodies, extreme emotions, violence, confrontation, challenging main roles, and great chor...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Aureliano in Palmira Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 The public realised that 21-year-old Rossini was something special in 1813 after the success of Signor Bruschino and Italiana in Algeri. But Aureliano...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Eduardo E Cristina Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 Rossini had under a month to compose Eduardo. Eduardo was a ‘centone’(patchwork) opera, as 19/26 numbers were ‘borrowed’ from earlier operas -in part...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Adelaide of Burgundy Adelaide di Borgogna Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 Rossini’s 23rd opera, composed under frantic time restraints, for the Carnival season in 1817, followed several 1817 triumphs – Cenerentola, La Gazza ...
