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ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Mariotti)

It took a French theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us a near-definitive staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini Il...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2024

PUCCINI Tosca (Montanaro)

This new Tosca forms the latest release in Pentatone’s Puccini series centred round the pairing of American soprano Melody Moore...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024

PORPORA Polifemo (Petrou)

The Opera of the Nobility’s production of Polifemo ran at the King’s Theatre from February to June 1735 in direct...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

PADEREWSKI Manru (Wendeberg)

Paderewski was a far more substantial composer than his piano-showcase pieces would suggest, as proved by his first and only...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024

MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea (Alarcón)

This production of Monteverdi’s last operatic masterpiece was filmed on the stage of the Opéra Royal at Versailles in January...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024

MENOTTI Amahl and the Night Visitors (Loddgard)

Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors belongs to that curious class of works that are widely supposed to be ubiquitous...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024

LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus (Vashegyi)

Leclair’s only commission from the Paris Opéra was a box-office flop, never revived on the public stage until modern times....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

GAZZANIGA L'isola d'Alcina (Ehrhardt)

If you have already heard of Giuseppe Gazzaniga it is probably because his ‘Don Giovanni’ middle act in Il capriccio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

BERTIN Fausto (Rousset)

When Fausto was first performed at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in March 1831, there was much comment in the press,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024

BRITTEN War Requiem (including rehearsal sequence. Britten)

Britten’s War Requiem touched a trapped nerve in the collective psyche of post-war Britain, commemorating the war dead with both...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2024

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