Of the opera, two arias may be familiar; otherwise, the known masterpiece is Bizet's incidental music to the original Daudet play, a study of the passion that poisons a Provençal village lad ...

Opera Holland Park has a long and proud tradition of producing operas by Italian composers whose own considerable talents were eclipsed by those of their contemporary, or near contemporary, Puccini.

Francesco Cilea’s L’Arlesiana – based on Daudet’s play L’Arlésienne, a tragic love story set in a Provencal village – never achieved the success of his next opera, Adriana Lecouvreur. In the ...

Part of the attraction, too, is the warm hospitality in the pubs where you find singers joining in the “craic” after the show. The new 771-seat opera house, opened in 2008, makes the 61st annual ...

Le “stagioni liriche” dei principali teatri non sono ricominciate e molte compagnie delle maggiori fondazioni sono in tournée, come La Scala in Giappone e il San Carlo in Oman. Una ragione di più, ...

Chronologically speaking at least, three operas composed between 1887 and 1907 give this year’s Wexford Festival a sharp focus. But Francesco Cilea and Emmanuel Chabrier, respectively doling out ...

Francesco Cilea's opera L'Arlesiana, of which Opera Holland Park has just unveiled its new production, can make or break a tenor's reputation. Its 1897 premiere launched Caruso. Later, it consolidated ...