| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 22-Jan-2013 Wigmore Hall | Classical Opera explore Mozart's music for castrati |
 Classical Opera’s well-attended concert at the Wigmore Hall was intriguingly titled “Mozart’s Castrati”. It is well known that Handel wrote many of his famous opera roles for castrati such as Senesino, but perhaps not that much is known about the castrato roles in Mozart’s operas or the castrato singers he composed for – probably because he did not cast castrati in any of his popular da Ponte operas or in Zauberflöte.
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