Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) by Richard Wagner. Music drama in three acts. The first day of Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). 1856. Libretto by the composer. First performance…
"Nudity, Nazis and nipple-slicing: 12 controversial opera productions" "A production of William Tell at Covent Garden prompted walkouts with a five-minute rape scene. It’s not the first time an opera has stirred…
On January 21, our reviewer Marina Boagno attended the opera Aroldo, at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza. The review is HERE. A week later, she had an interview with baritone Vladimir Stoyanov,…
Moser’s statement is not only a reality call, but also a hot shower that flushes all the inanities, incomprehension, fallacies, self-centered vanity, ludicrous actualization, contemporary snobbery and quasi-progressive libretto beliefs down the shower drain.
Kát’a Kabanová Kát’a Kabanová (1921), opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček. Libretto by the composer, after the play Groza (Storm) by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky. First performance at the National Theatre, Brno,…
Today the sad news reached us that our reviewer Gabriele Luise (Gabi) Eder has passed away at the age of 58. Gabi was one of the pillars of Opera Gazet, and we…
Aroldo (Stiffelio) by Giuseppe Verdi. Opera in four acts. 1857. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after his earlier Stiffelio. First performance at the Teatro Nuovo, Rimini, on 16 August 1857. Seen: 21…
FIGARO Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Opera buffa in four acts. 1786. Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, after the play La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro by…
Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi. Opera in four acts. 1847. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after the play by Shakespeare. First performance at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence, on 14th March 1847. TEATRO…
TOSCA Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. Melodramma in three acts. 1899. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou. First performance at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome,…