Not only are Ingmar Bergman’s films very ‘operatic’ in their poetic but visceral way of dealing with matters of life and death, opera as an art form had a place…
Author: Yehuda Shapiro
Porpora’s Ifigenia in Aulide in Bayreuth
Ifigenia in Aulide: Bayreuth Baroque 2024 opens with the modern premiere of Porpora’s 1735 opera It was with an opera by Nicola Antonio Porpora – Carlo il Calvo – that…
High infidelity – a double bill of comedy and tragedy at Opera Holland Park
‘Cav and Pag get a divorce’ is Opera Holland Park’s promotional line for its double bill, which prefaces Leoncavallo’s familiar Pagliacci with a relatively rarely seen work, Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto…
A Figaro for any time
In some senses this Figaro is a throwback. John Cox’s staging was first seen in 2005, when Garsington Opera still made its home in the gardens of Garsington Manor in…
Andrea Chénier: A final flourish for Pappano at the Royal Opera
Andrea Chénier is perhaps not an opera for purists, but there is no denying that it ends in a blaze of glory. Chénier and his beloved Maddalena exultantly greet the…