| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 22-Jun-2012 Holland Park Theatre | Zanetto and Gianni Schicchi: Opera Holland Park's Florentine Double Bill |
 After their Mascagni debut last year, with L’amico Fritz (the composer’s first post-Cavalleria opera), Opera Holland Park have set out to uncover more music from the so-called ‘one-hit-wonder’ – still known to most for his smash verismo opera alone. This year, the opera company brings to London audiences an even more rarely performed work by the Tuscan-born musician: the one-act opera Zanetto, in a double bill with Puccini’s much more popular musical comedy, Gianni Schicchi.Read full review... | |
| 5-Jul-2011 Holland Park Theatre | Puccini's La Rondine: romantic opera without tears |
 In his wonderful BBC series on Italian opera, Antonio Pappano declared that "Puccini does love like no other composer," a phrase I've also heard from others. Act II of La Rondine is a perfect example of this, in which we watch the high-class courtesan Magda and the virtuous but penniless Ruggero fall for each other: they are in a crowded Parisian night club, but the rest of the world ceases to exist around them.
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| 9-Jun-2011 Guildhall School Theatre | Double Bill to delight. |
 Donizetti’s one act opera, Rita, composed in 1841 formed the first half of last night’s double bill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The second half comprised another late work, Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, composed in 1891 to a libretto by Tchaikovsky’s brother, Modest.
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| 7-Mar-2011 Guildhall School Theatre | Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Guildhall Schol of Music |
 In 1790s France, a young noblewoman, Blanche de La Force, decides to enter a Carmelite convent. As the increasingly paranoid revolutionaries close in, Blanche, her family and the nuns hold a series of discussions on their circumstances, the danger, their faith and, ultimately, their martyrdom. You might think that it doesn't sound much like exciting material for a dynamic, dramatic opera - but you'd be wrong.Read full review... | |
