Un allestimento sovraccarico, ma interpretazione dell’orchestra e delle voci di alto livello. Il regista e scenografo ...

Noted theater director Andrei Serban, who has staged numerous operas for national and international companies, drew a tough assignment for his Metropolitan Opera debut. The task at hand was actually ...

The LSO performing a major work by Berlioz, under the baton of Colin Davis, sounds like a sure-fire hit and, while ultimately not as uplifting and totally engrossing as some of the other works in the ...

It’s a brave company that tackles Berlioz’s problematical first opera as the pitfalls are immense. First there’s the unwieldy ninety-minute first act, whose dramaturgy is shaky to say the least as ...

Benvenuto Cellini encompasses a riot, a carnival, a love-story, a celebration of creative work - yet another seminal slice of music theatre that Wagner, always keen to cover his tracks when it came to ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Benvenuto is set against a background of rivalry in art and love. Pope Clement VII has chosen Cellini over his ...

As much as the use of supertitles has changed the face of opera, the high-def broadcasting of stage performances into movie theaters may have even more far-reaching effects. With supertitles, foreign ...