En vivo, Video: Buscador de críticas de conciertos de música clásica, ópera, ballet y danza | José Fardilha

Max Hoehn takes Così‘s subtitle, La scuola degli amanti (The School for Lovers), and connects it to Monty Python’s sex education sketch in The Meaning of Life. What larks, eh? 

In Nicholas Hytner's chocolate box production, lovingly revived by Bruno Ravella for Glyndebourne's tour, Alfonso is the most charismatic character on the stage.

Iván Fischer's minimalist staging of Don Giovanni makes a triumphant return to Mupa, Budapest.

For the latest revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier's candy-striped production, the Royal Opera serves up the operatic equivalent of stodgy semolina.

La mise en scène de Marco Arturo Marelli et Enrico De Feo se veut fondamentalement ancrée dans le contexte historique de la création de l’œuvre mozartienne.

Un plateau homogène, des voix lyriques à souhait, un chef palpitant et un Orchestre de la Suisse Romande aux aguets auront rendu les honneurs à ce divin Verdi ! Rien que pour la Leonore de Csilla Boross, le voyage à Genève est nécessaire : Maledizione à ceux qui manqueront ce spectacle! 

Mariame Clément’s Glyndebourne production of Don Pasquale, revived here for the 2015 Tour, delivers its lesson particularly harshly. 

The opening of the Teatro Real’s season in Madrid has been anything but uneventful. However, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the ever-pleasing opera chosen to welcome back an expectant audience, had very little to do with it.

Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte billed Don Giovanni a “dramma giocoso,” literally a “jocular drama,” and, unsurprisingly, finding the balance between comedy and drama is the key to any good production.