John Osborn

Rome, 1532. Pope Clement VII has tasked the sculptor Benvenuto Cellini with creating a bronze statu…

With its lively dances, ghost scenes and touching arias, Hamlet was Ambroise Thomas’s single great…

Fromental Halévy’s five-act grand opera La Juive (‘The Jewess’) is one of the most popular operas o…

In an apparent idyll high in the Swiss Alps, a secluded village society prepares for the next weddi…

Glorious comedy and impeccable coloratura combine in Donzetti’s La fille du régiment, incarnated by…

The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–1…

The opening work of the 2019-2020 season of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma was Verdi's grand opera b…

The “superb, sinister” Tales of Hoffmann at the Dutch National Opera with “excellent soloists, the…

The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that…

Meyerbeer is telling at once a small, intimate story – Fidès’s, Jean, and Berthe’s relationship – a…

New production. Recorded live at Royal Opera House, July, 05, 2015.

An all-star cast assembled for the Met’s first-ever performances of Rossini’s romantic retelling of…