With 27 named roles and a large orchestra (including instruments such as mandolins), Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s 1911 opera, I gioielli della Madonna (The Jewels of the Madonna) might seem a surprising…
Month: May 2015
Donizetti: Les Martyrs
As the editor of Opera magazine, John Allison, notes in his editorial in the June issue, Donizetti fans are currently spoilt for choice, enjoying a ‘Donizetti revival’ with productions of…
Poliuto, Glyndebourne
Donizetti’s Poliuto at Glyndebourne could well become one of of the great Glyndebourne classics.
Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Opera Holland Park
On 6 June, Jonathan Dove’s Flight touches down in Kensington, west London. Opera Holland Park is to stage the first London production of Dove’s operatic presentation of the real-life story…
Pacific Opera Project Presents Ariadne auf Naxos
Pacific Opera Project, a small Los Angeles company, presented a production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Ebell Club with an excellent group of young singers at the…
Jac van Steen in Conversation
Last year’s Strauss anniversary year — 150 years since his birth — offered, at least in the United Kingdom, a typical number of opportunities and frustrations.