You can have any review automatically translated. Just click on the Translate button, which you can find in the Google bar above this article. Mese Mariano (Giordano). Libretto van Salvatore di Giacomo.…
"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…
Lucia di Lammermoor van Gaetano Donizetti. Dramma tragico in drie bedrijven. 1835. Libretto van Salvadore Cammarano, naar Sir Walter Scott's roman The Bride of Lammermoor. Eerste opvoering in het Teatro S Carlo,…
La Khovantchina à Paris Après Boris Godounov, Moussorgski continue d’explorer et d’interroger l’histoire de la Russie. Il s’inspire, pour cet opéra, de la Révolte de Moscou de 1682, année où Pierre le…
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…
"We mogen u weer ontvangen!" Mailtje van DNO: "We mogen u weer ontvangen!" Met een feilloos gevoel voor hetgeen de operaliefhebber na maanden van onthouding nodig heeft, trakteert Sophie de Lint ons…
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…