Reviewer's Rating Donizetti And Friends Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2023Opera Rara does sterling work in recovering lost or out-of-the-way repertory from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and then...
Strategic Love Play Emma Burnell 10/09/2023A man (Archie Blackhouse) and a woman (Letty Thomas) meet for a first date. There’s been previous interaction, and it’s...
Reviewer's Rating Green Opera @ Grimeborn Tim Hochstrasser 08/09/2023After last year’s fine performance of ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’, Green Opera return with three separate operatic offerings. Firstly, ‘555: Verlaine en...
Charlie’s Girls Adi Ginat 06/09/2023As an homage to Charles Miller, a British composer with over 25 years of compositions the Union theatre celebrates his...
Cristian Della Chiara in conversation with Josi Steinfeld Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023He is Rossini Opera Festival‘s esteemed General Director, who has recently assumed a significant role as a member of the...
Reviewer's rating Aureliano in Palmira Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023The 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 02/09/2023Rossini 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 02/09/2023Rossini’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 02/09/2023Marcio 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 01/09/2023Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825,...