Performer: Matteo Loi

Superlative singing, hilarious antics and an energetic production make Donizetti's Le Convenience ed inconvenience an exhilarating success. 

Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall bubbles with a concert staging of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi with Sir Byn Terfel leading a cast of fine young singers from the European Opera Centre.

A staged performance of Handel’s pasticcio opera Oreste shows a strong narrative structure and provides a vehicle for promising young singers.

Kay Link's new production of Handel's pasticcio Oreste is surprisingly strong theatrically, often musically too. 

To those unfamiliar with Victor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, oder Die Tod-Verweigerung, the story of the work’s inception is almost as gripping as the libretto itself. 

In der Wiener Kammeroper ging das in einer „gekürzten Wiener Mischfassung“ neu eingerichtete Dramma giocoso La scuola de gelosi von Antonio Salieri über die Bühne, dessen slapstickartige Regie vonJean Renshaw die sehr differenzierte Neufassung gleichsam weichspülte.