Lucia di Lammermoor is an opera of shocking brutality, with savage emotional aggression rivalling physical violence throughout its fast-paced plot. Fulham Opera’s reduction for Grimeborn brings Donizetti’s dark, doomed characters…
Tonight’s programme: a screening of Donizetti’s Mary Stuart (DVD presented by Greta Solly). Norwich Opera Club is a sociable, informal gathering of opera enthusiasts. The Club doesn’t produce performances, so you…
This year’s Cambridge University Opera Society main show brings Donizetti’s sparkling comedy L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) to West Road Concert Hall. Sung in Italian (with English surtitles), and with full…
The poor country boy Nemorino is in love with Adina, a confident landowner, but she is way out of his league – financially and otherwise. But when he buys a…
Pia de’ Tolomei premiered in Venice in February 1837 and, unbelievably, reached London in March 2016 – last week – a mere 179 years later. With laudable courage, English Touring…
Among the great mad scenes available to an operatic soprano, Lucia di Lammermoor is a classic. The parade of blood-stained divas staggering across stages to Donizetti’s eerie, twirling melody includes…
In this double bill, we get a violently enthusiastic little farce from Donizetti which, though fiery, is definitely not his best work; but next, we are treated to the revival…
Jeff Clarke’s marvellous retelling of La Fille du régiment updates Donizetti’s original setting (the Swiss Tyrol in the early 19th century) to the hot, dusty Californian desert of the 1950s,…