A barge is moored along a wharf on the Seine River, the sluggish flow of which is a hard-working metaphor in Puccini’s one-act Il tabarro (The cloak) – for the…
Tag: Sir Mark Elder
Opera Rara bring Donizetti’s Il Paria in from the cold
‘Entirely without merit,’ wrote one contemporary reviewer of Donizetti’s Il Paria, which received only six performances in January 1829 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and then disappeared into…
Roderick Williams joins Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé
Roderick Williams has had a busy pandemic. The last couple of weeks alone have seen the baritone joining with VOCES8 for a concert in their Live from London – Christmas…