by Claudia Pritchard | Sep 17, 2026 | Music
Waterperry Opera/Charles Court Opera/David Eaton Wilton’s Music Hall, London E1, 14 September Donizetti’s evergreen opera The Elixir of Love moves from sunny Italy to English apple country in Waterperry Opera’s effervescent production, first seen in the Oxfordshire... 
by Guy Rickards | Nov 29, 2024 | Drama, Music
Thomas Atkins, Segomotso Masego Shupinyaneng, and Rhian Lois, Rehearsal Image © Genevieve Girling English National Opera / Teresa Riveiro Böhm London Coliseum, 15th November 2024 Donizetti’s evergreen favourite, L’elisir d’amore (1832), was last staged at ENO in 2011,... 
by Music Editor | Nov 9, 2019 | Music
Potent potion Pleasing crowds since 2007, Annabel Arden’s sunny production of Donizetti’s perfect sentimental comedy runs around the country on tour before returning to the main festival again next year. I guess it will run for ever, and why not? – really it’s an... 
by Lucien Jenkins | Mar 9, 2019 | Music
Killer queen The low point in Donizetti’s “Elizabeth and Essex” opera comes when the pit strikes up a version of the National Anthem. The howling anachronism isn’t the problem: the history of opera contains many such, and we tend to cope. The trouble is,...