The first of three operas written by Giuseppe Verdi, based on Shakespeare’s plays, returns to Genoa, in a musically successful and scenically more contradictory production. The opera was composed in…
AIDA | Teatro Massimo di Palermo
There are opera houses you visit.And then there are opera houses you dream about for years before finally stepping inside. Coming to Palermo and discovering the Teatro Massimo was a…
DER ROSENKAVALIER |Â Wiener Staatsoper
To hear and see this opera here makes more sense than anywhere else in the world – save perhaps Dresden – because this is where it happens, and where it…
I PURITANI | Teatro Regio Torino
Some theaters become familiar over time.And then there are theaters that slowly become part of your opera life. Before even talking about I Puritani, I really need to once again…
NABUCODONOSOR | Teatro Alla Scala
There are reviews⊠and then there are nights like this one.Nights that remind you why you fell in love with opera in the first place. Because letâs be honest: Nabucco…
DVOĆĂK / MARTINĆź / STRAVINSKY / RAVEL | Concertgebouworkest
V pĆĂrodÄ â In Nature’s Realm â is the opening panel of a DvoĆĂĄk triptych of concert overtures the symphonic circuit prefers to leave on the shelf, and on Friday…
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO | Dutch National Opera
Two scars across an otherwise glowing evening. Dutch National Opera‘s new Nozze di Figaro gives us Mozart at the level the work deserves on almost every front â a Netherlands…
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTâS DREAM | Deutsche Oper Berlin
When an opera is based on a comedy, one is entitled to expect at least some trace of humour. A modicum of entertainment, at the very least; laughter would be…
RECITAL ETIENNE DUPUIS | Opéra National de Lyon
After a triumphant portrayal of Henri Ashton in the production of Lucie de Lammermoor at the OpĂ©ra Comique, the Canadian baritone treated us to an anthology worthy recital at the…
HAYDN, ADĂMEK, BRAHMS | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Two end-points of a great musical spectrum, the Gasteig brochure called this programme, with OndĆej AdĂĄmek‘s Where Are You? set between them as the unstable hinge. The copy, for once,…