Miracle en musique en trois actes. Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes. It has been five years today since I started this blog! Can you all believe it! I have reviewed over 350 operas! Okay, I have released 344 reviews to be exact (counting this one), but I have nine completed reviews waiting to be […]

Opera in prologo e due parti. Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes. Did Richard Strauss plagiarize the son of an Italian industrialist when he wrote Elektra? In 1909, an article by the musicologist Giovanni Tebaldini made this accusation, causing this opera, (which had been successfully running the Italian opera circuit in its first five years), […]

Opera in due atti. Running Time: 2 hours 21 minutes. Back in 2013, we all sort of came to the conclusion that Foroni has been the long lost hidden operatic messiah (and do not get me started on how he died at the age of 33!). Wexford, which had presented Cristina, Regina di Svezia for […]

Opera ou Opera Comique en trois actes et quatre (ou cinq?) tableaux. Running Time: 3 hours 1 minute (plus 14 minutes of supplemental material) Ah, my annual birthday review!  I actually wrote act one up in August 2020, put it aside for over a year, and finished up everything else in October 2021. I have […]

Opera in three acts and four scenes. Running Time: 1 hour 49 minutes. The Rome Opera actually has photographs of the original sets of this opera here: https://archiviostorico.operaroma.it/edizione_opera/nerone-p-mascagni-1936-37/ This was the last premiered opera of Mascagni, ending a career which had started off with the infamous sphere known as Cav of Cav-Pag fame, which, for non-opera elites, is not the […]