Review: Madama Butterfly, Royal Opera House
Madama Butterfly is one of the most performed operas ever, as it has en enduring appeal due of its themes of love, loss, dignity and deceit. Reaching new height...
Patrice Caurier
Review: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House hosts an utterly triumphant revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s production of Gioachino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini’s classic op...
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...
Review: Madama Butterfly, Royal Opera House
In recent months, the new productions mounted by the Royal Opera House have come under some heavy criticism, and the much revived and traditional productions pr...
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, ...