Review: Il Turco in Italia, Royal Opera House
As the Rossini biographer Stendhal puts it, "Rossini is always amusing, Mozart never; Mozart is like a mistress who is always serious and often sad, but whose v...
Alessandro Corbelli
Review: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
When Act One lasts nearly two hours and the right people still aren’t married, one could be forgiven for spending the interval pondering how many more laments, ...