Month: July 2026

Lloyd 17 July 2026 2

The Aix-en-Provence Festival has treated us to superb concert-version operas in recent years. After a memorable Le Prophète, and a...

Michele 17 July 2026 0

The Noli Musica Festival: Where Opera Meets History on the Ligurian Coast The Noli Musica Festival, now in its seventeenth...

William 17 July 2026 0

When Going Back Changes Everything: Werther and the Art of Rediscovery Some productions make a strong first impression. Others quietly...

Geoffrey 16 July 2026 0

I first met Lorenzo Giovati a few years ago in Verona; we had already connected on Instagram about our shared...

Lloyd 16 July 2026 0

Staging Mozart's The Magic Flute is always a complex exercise. The masterpiece already contains an enormous amount of subtext and...

William 12 July 2026 0

When Rome Took Inspiration from FIFA: La Traviata and the Era of Cooling Breaks Some farewells are simply too important...

Geoffrey 12 July 2026 0

A director whom I greatly admire, I still remember attending a splendid Otello in Rome with Gregory Kunde in the...

Henri 10 July 2026 0

Martin Kušej's Macbeth has been in the Bayerische Staatsoper's repertoire since 2008 and has not lost a gram of its...

Henri 10 July 2026 0

There are evenings at the opera that stay with you for years because something in them exceeds what you were...

Henri 10 July 2026 0

A new run of La Fura dels Baus's Turandot at the Bayerische Staatsoper. And what a cast to bring it...

Michele 10 July 2026 1

“you’ve never written anything more beautiful and compact in your life… I only hope my music will be worthy of...

Lloyd 7 July 2026 0

French below. Lloyd (Opera Diary) : Before taking on the role of Ariodante at the Beaune International Baroque Opera Festival,...

Lloyd 5 July 2026 0

On July 4, the Festival International d'Opéra Baroque de Beaune presented a concert performance of Handel's Ariodante. The evening carried...

Henri 1 July 2026 0

There is a question opera lovers always end up asking themselves when a ballet programme lands in their hands: what...

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