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Lise Davidsen is exceptional in Verdi’s masterly study of war and leadership; and Belfast is the focus of a bold four-woman collaboration on film
‘Goodness Triumphant’ is the subtitle of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and you’d better believe he delivers. It’s the sweetest thing imaginable; true, the stepsisters are awful, but their spite bubbles over in streams of such sunny major-key effervescence that it’s hard to hold it against them. As for their father Don Magnifico, you can’t seriously hiss
A five-act grand opera, Don Carlo is composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi made several changes to the music and further versions followed since the 1866 original.
The rising star, in her first major Verdi role, gives a tour de force of glorious singing in an otherwise unfocused production which struggles with character and dramatic intensity<strong><br></strong>
Fine voices aren't quite enough in Verdi's epic royal tragedy. Opera review by David Nice