Mariusz Treli?ski’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece is visually fascinating but psychologically confusing
Month: January 2015
Orfeo at the Roundhouse, Royal Opera
The regal trumpets and sackbuts sound their bold herald and, followed by admiring eyes, the powers of state and church begin their dignified procession along a sloping walkway to assume their lofty positions upon the central dais.
Idomeneo in Montpellier
Vestiges of a momentous era . . .
L’elisir d’amore in Marseille
There were hints that L’elisir is one of the great bel canto masterpieces.
Das Liebesverbot opens the new season at Teatro Verdi in Trieste
Aron Stiehl’s production of this rare early Wagner opera cheerfully brings commedia dell’arte to La Cage aux Folles.