Devotees of early Romantic Italian opera must have thought they had died and gone to bel canto heaven last week, when two masterpieces of that genre, neither of them overly familiar, opened in ...

They’re not called soap operas for nothing. For decades these overripe melodramas may have been steady fare on daytime TV, but they can definitely trace their parentage back to the Romantic opera ...

Anna Netrebko is a soprano fit for a queen. Her sound possesses the opulence and attention-grabbing power of a necklace dripping with jewels. She projects a regal, authoritative presence to match. If ...

The Greek National Opera is presenting a new, captivating production of Anna Bolena, conducted by Jacques Lacombe and directed by Themelis Glynatsis. The performance will run for six shows at the ...

The first act of Lyric Opera’s current production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena is visually stunning, vocally impressive, and dramatically compelling. The second act is visually stunning, vocally ...

Once again, Melbourne Opera is thrilled to be working with Music Director of the former ?Victoria State Opera Richard Divall, who has prepared a new edition and translation for this season. Melbourne ...

There’s nothing like those Tudors and their affairs to provide gripping, juicy drama, as the recent Showtime series reconfirmed. Donizetti found enough fodder in the intrigues of that royal court to ...

Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, a thoroughly romanticised account of Anne Boleyn’s disastrous destiny, is something difficult to sell in terms of credibility. Whatever knowledge we can have of history, it is ...

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Last autumn, WNO celebrated Free Spirits (Lulu, the Vixen, and – debatably – Butterfly); this autumn it’s dead Tudor queens and their victims. “Heads will roll,” thunders the publicity, with Donizetti ...