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Category: Reviews
LA Opera Presents Figaro 90210
Figaro 90210 is Vid Guerrerio’s modern version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo DaPonte’s 1786 opera, The Marriage of Figaro.
Tristan und Isolde at the Wiener Staatsoper
David McVicar’s production of Wagner’s seminal music drama runs aground on the Cornish coast.
Songs of Night and Travel, Wigmore Hall
The coming of ‘Night’ brings darkness, shadows and mystery; sleep, dreams and nightmares; fancies, fantasies and passions.
Andrea ChÈnier, Royal Opera
Umberto’s Giordano’s Andrea ChÈnier, now at the Royal Opera House, is no more about history than Jesus Christ Superstar is about theology.
Yevgeny Onegin in Warsaw
Mariusz Treli?ski’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece is visually fascinating but psychologically confusing
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.
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.