This is a clever, warm, and eventually quite moving, properly distanced performance of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, produced especially for Covid-times by the Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti, Modena. Director Stefano Monti has…
"To feel that there is someone listening to us with interest, that is what is missing. Hearing the breaths ... maybe even someone’s cough ... is part of the life of the…
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (Only one who knows what it is to yearn) Available on Oper Frankfurt’s website from 7.30pm on March 26 until June 20. The film was made by…
A DELIRIOUS ADRIANA Scheduled at the Bologna Teatro Comunale in May 2020 and postponed until a later date (it will possibly be rescheduled, in the original theatrical guise, as soon as possible),…
As a young Roman, Luciano Ganci sang with 'I Pueri Cantores' of the Sistine Chapel. That is where his musical education began. Decades later, he made his debut in Gianni Schicchi, followed…
Chorégies d'Orange 2018
The Cunning Little Vixen directed by Otto Schenk SHEER MAGIC ! We had a very special day yesterday. Usually we are not very fond of opera streams, especially if we have to…
EUREKA ! Stand by folks, I’ve identified the opera problem. What opera problem? The one where audiences are declining and the audiences which do attend often can’t say if what they heard…
When, a few weeks ago, commenting on Il pirata, we wrote that it is a ‘borderline’ work, halfway between two eras, we did not yet know that immediately afterwards we would be…
On April 17 the Dutch daily paper Trouw published a hagiographic interview met Lotte de Beer (interview with Lotte de Beer) about the Aïda she directed in Paris. Interviewer Peter de Lint…