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Comic overkill stunts Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Grange Festival
Despite excellent vocal performances, David Alden’s production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto aims at irreverence but overplays the comedy.
World premiere success for Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at La Scala
A great cast and an enjoyable score seal the success of a new opera based on Umberto Eco's classic historical murder mystery, The Name of the Rose.
Baroque opera resurrected at Pinchgut: Legrenzi's Giustino
Unseen since the 18th Century apart from one night in Germany, Legrenzi's Giustino deserves to re-enter the repertoire after its revival by Pinchgut Opera's Erin Helyard.
Nagano conducts Dutch premiere of Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen
Performed for the first time in a concert version, Abrahamsen's 2019 opera appears with a fine cast at the Concertgebouw.
Good tidings of great joy from the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall
Handel's Christmas classic gets a fresh lick of paint from John Butt and colleagues.
Rodelinda returns to the Göttingen Handel Festival
Handel's Rodelinda comes to Göttingen a year after the planned centennial anniversary event, but is worth the wait with respect to musical values led by conductor Laurence Cummings with Anna Dennis in the title role.