News

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

Dynamic have released a DVD and Blueray of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux from the 2024 Donizetti Festival in Bergamo

Arte.tv are streaming a performance of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda from the the Teatro Real, Madrid. The cast includes Lisette Oropesa and Aigul Akhmetshina. Operavision are streaming an Hungarian State Opera production of the same opera with Orsolya Sáfár  as Maria.

Will Crutchfield of Teatro Nuovo has pointed to two reviews of their recent season by Andrew Moravcsik and Steven Mintz, which touch on broader concerns about the future of opera. Teatro Nuovo have also created an interesting series of web pages on past singers including some recordings 

Opera Rara have put many of their recordings and their Wigmore Hall concerts online - https://www.youtube.com/
operararaofficial . There is also their Lives in Song series where Flora Willson and Roger Parker discuss a number of the songs in detail - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwWCjP6qBSxC7cyYgMH2nJMeuemnvyNSw

Reviews and Articles

Review and background by Charles Jernigan of Józef Michał Poniatowski’s Pierre de Médicis, which was revived at the 2025 Wildbad festival on July 24, 2025.

Stella Rollet has updated her article on the famous 19th century mezzo, Rosine Stoltz, see here.

Article by William Desniou listing the productions and recordings of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda

In anticipation of a concert performance of Pacini's Amazilia on August 23, 2025, at the Bel Canto Ritrovato Festival in Pesaro, Charles Jernigan has written articles on Pacini's life and on Amazilia .

Review by Charles Jernigan of Verdi's Macbeth and Bellini's La Sonnambula by Teatro Nuovo on July 19 & 20, 2025 at Montclair State University.

Review by Alan Jackson of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor by Opera Holland Park, July-August 2025

Older reviews can be found on the Past Productions pages