News

All copies of the Newsletter and the Journals are now online. 

There is a performance of Donizetti's Poliuto at the Stadthalle, Ternitz, Austria, on Saturday, April 13 at 7pm. See here for more details and here for the flyer.

The 2024 Rossini Festival at Pesaro programme can be found here. It runs August 7 - 23, 2024. Its associated festival, Il Belcanto ritrovato,  looking at lesser known contemporaries runs from August 16 - September 21, 2024. The main focus this year is the music of Luigi Rossi and Nicola Vaccai, see here

Opera Rara have released their recording of Donizetti's  L'esule di Roma.  See here

The 10th Donizetti Festival has been announced for November 14 - December 1, 2024  in Bergamo. The main works are Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, Don Pasquale  and Zoraida di Granata . See here

Sophia Lambton has published a new book on Maria Callas titled The Callas Imprint.

Reviews

Reviews by Charles Jernigan of Donizetti's Zoraida di Granata from the 2023 Wexford Festival and Alfredo il grande, Il diluvio universale and Lucie de Lammermoor from the 2023 Donizetti Festival in Bergamo. Zoraida di Granata is being streamed free by Operavision until May 3, 2024. The Bergamo operas are available on  subscription from https://donizettitv.uscreen.io/

Review (in German) by Herbert Büttiker of Donizetti's Olivo e Pasquale  by Die Zürcher Kammeroper on December 31, 2023 at the Gemeindesaal Zollikon, Switzerland, It was the first performance of the opera in Switzerland.

Review by Alan Jackson of Random Opera's production of Marianna Bottini’s Elena e Gerardo

Review by Herbert Schneider of Donizetti's Les Martyrs in Vienna (in German)

Older reviews can be found on the Past Productions pages