Opera Reviews

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Rigoletto

The new production of Rigoletto, the opening opera of the 2023 Opera Holland Park season, is a triumph. Directed by Cecilia Stinton, it is set in a 19...
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Götterdämmerung

This production of Götterdämmerung is in every aspect excellent, cogent and intelligently articulated. Despite somewhat more limited resources than...
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Agrippina

Handel wrote a lot of operas and some are better than others. Agrippina was written for the Venice Carnival of 1710 and the textbooks tell us that it ...
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Theodor
תיאודור

Every now and then the Israeli Opera presents a whole new and truly original Israeli opera sung in Hebrew. On opening night it was a great pleasure to...
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Innocence

Even though it is a love story culminating in a marriage that begins this tale, Innocence is not a love story; not, that is, in the traditional operat...
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Aida

Aida was conceived by Verdi as the grandest of grand opera for Cairo in 1871 as a great spectacle. It is intrinsically Egyptian with pyramids temples ...
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Il Barbiere di Seviglia

Five stars are not sufficient for probably the best production I have ever seen! Its debut was last year in Salzburg and will undoubtedly be revived a...
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L’Orfeo
Opéra-marionnettes

This sole Monaco performance was unique as it was performed entirely by puppets from the renowned Carlo Colla puppet theatre. Monte Carlo opera is ...
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The Dead City
Die Tote Stadt

Shame on the Arts Council for effectively reducing London to one opera house, making it the poor man of Europe, less attractive to singers and tourist...
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The Magic Flute

Mozart's Magic Flute is one of those operas that brings out extreme views amongst opera lovers. For some it's a trivial bit of pantomime redeemed by s...