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…
I Capuleti e i Montecchi von Vincenzo Bellini. Tragedia lirica in zwei Akten. 1830. Libretto von Felice Romani. Uraufführung im Teatro La Fenice, Venedig, am 11. März 1830. Besuchte Vorstellung: 23. Januar…
Zu unseren Schwestern, zu unseren Brüdern Diptyque composé de « En vertu de… » d’Eugen Birman et de « Der Kaiser von Atlantis » de Viktor Ullmann. Hémicycle du Parlement européen et…