Verdi has been neglected at Glyndebourne over the years but in Tom Cairns’s new production of La Traviata, amends are made to Italy’s greatest composer. Cairns has given the opera an intelligent ...

George Hall, translator of ENO’s first ever production of the Bellini opera, faced many linguistic challenges in his quest for clarity Opera in 19th-century Italy achieved the feat of being both high ...

Bellini's most consistently inspired opera, director Orpha Phelan tells us, has been set on a pedestal. Well, a pedestal would have been good for the titular Druid high priestess to deliver her ...

In diretta dal Metropolitan Opera House di New York, il 10 ottobre giunge nelle sale italiane una nuova rappresentazione dell'opera in due atti di Vincenzo Bellini "Norma".

Great operas need great leading ladies, and one of the pleasures of being a New York critic is hearing how they develop their roles over time. The big news at the Metropolitan Opera is that Bellini’s ...