| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Jan-2013 Wigmore Hall | Classical Opera explore Mozart's music for castrati | Nahoko Gotoh |
 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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| 25-Feb-2012 Kennedy Center: Opera House | Così fan tutte – e sempre! | Raisa Massuda, mandolinvision.blogspot.com |
 I hear that both you and your friend are getting married to wealthy and pretty ladies from Washington DC?
My heartiest congratulations, gentlemen! As my early wedding gift, allow me to offer you some marriage wisdom: when your beloved betray you, remember to forgive them and keep living happily ever after.
Don’t believe in betrayal? Well, then, allow me to prove my point.
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| 27-Apr-2011 Younger Hall | Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Renata Pokupić and Jean-Christophe Spinosi | Rohan Shotton |
 A significantly smaller than usual audience was present for the SCO’s ‘Symphonic Opera’ concert, the finale of its St Andrews season. In the days leading up to thee concert, there was some disgruntlement from people about the programme – “Another Haydn symphony” was a common complaint, the Orchestra having put on several in St Andrews recently. Despite this, the singing, playing and conducting were superb, and any notions of being tired of the repertoire were quickly extinguished.
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