Reviewer's Rating Lucia di Lammermoor Tim Hochstrasser 03/11/2017his famous opera regained its place in the repertory thanks to the role it played in the careers of Callas...
Reviewer's Rating Les Vêpres Siciliennes Rivka Jacobson 20/10/2017he Les Vêpres Siciliennes or as it is known in English The Sicilian Vespers is the name given to the successful...
Reviewer's Rating La bohème Owen Davies 13/09/2017ovent Garden’s new production of La Bohème, replacing the much loved Copley version which has been re-appearing for forty years,...
Reviewer's Rating The Merchant Of Venice James Holloway 25/07/2017f I had to choose two words to describe this opera, they would be “unexpected”, and “powerful”. The libretto is...
Reviewer's Rating Otello Enza De Francisci 17/07/2017erdi was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and would significantly contribute to the canonization of the Elizabethan writer in nineteenth-century...
Reviewer's Rating Turandot Owen Davies 07/07/2017urandot was Puccini’s last opera – indeed, he died before it was finished and the version we now hear is...
Reviewer's Rating Mitridate, Re di Ponto Owen Davies 28/06/2017itridate is an opera seria written by Mozart when he was a 14 year old, learning his trade and flexing...
Reviewer's Rating L’Elisir D’Amore Rivka Jacobson 01/06/2017’elisir D’amore, with its highly effective musical contrasts, propelled Donizetti into further international recognition and stardom in 1832, confirming the...
Reviewer's Rating Mayerling Tim Hochstrasser 24/05/2017mong Kenneth MacMillan’s many distinctive and famous ballets Mayerling continues to win the highest plaudits, and justly so. More than...
Reviewer's Rating Don Carlo Tim Hochstrasser 14/05/2017here are at least four versions of this late-Verdi opera in print, and any number of variations used in production....
