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 ...
The Journey to Reims Il viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2023 Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825, for Charles X’s coron...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ L’infanzia di Orlando Orlando’s childhood Enza De Francisci 08/06/2023 The myth of Orlando (Roland) has captured the imagination from as far back as the Middle Ages. The plays centres on Roland as a boy – called Orlandino...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Julius Caesar Rivka Jacobson 10/12/2021 Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma opens its new season with the world’s premier of Julius Caesar, a fitting subject to this location. It is a brave gamble. ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Tosca Rivka Jacobson 08/12/2021 This is one of the most performed operas. It was first staged in this opera house with the same set and costume in the presence of the composer Giacom...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Aida Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 31/08/2021 Considering the current deterioration of the epidemiologic situation, one would have never dreamed of being able to enjoy an opera alongside 15,000 ot...
Falstaff Alessandro Zummo 28/02/2020 Verdi's last opera is a real artistic testament to the career of a composer who until the very end never ceased to experiment and evolve his musical a...
Rigoletto Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2019 I must confess, that one of the main reasons I so wanted to see this production of Rigoletto at the Teatro alla Scala was to hear and see the legendar...
