Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Put on an opera about regime change and there is always likely to be some topical reference to hand. The imminent ...
In fact much of Rossini’s repertoire, both comic and tragic, fell out of favour worldwide from about the time of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, partly as a disappearance of such star lead sopranos ...
On Semiramide at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. At the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro—the composer’s birthplace on the Adriatic—it is always a treat when a major work of the composer’s ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. After 25 years, the Metropolitan Opera has revived John Copley’s production of Rossini’s last and most ...
Outstanding performances by Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Daniela Barcellona illuminate David Alden’s occasionally cluttered vision of this Rossini rarity Rossini’s great 1823 tragedy, his ...
A majestic Joyce DiDonato leads a stunning performance of rare Rossini, while Nico Muhly makes Marnie sing. Plus, a memorable Stockhausen sign-off An amoral queen with a murdered husband, a stale ...
00:01, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Updated: 16:16, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Indeed, this is its first appearance at Covent Garden for more than a century, but the Opera House has assembled a superb cast of singers for ...
Against the backdrop of the Hanging Gardens Semiramide Queen of Babylon defies bad omens and supernatural threats in her quest to find a worthy successor to her late husband But she harbours more than ...
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