Die Hochzeit des Camacho – review

Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolMendelssohn, it would seem, blew hot and cold about opera, a genre associated with his youth. He wrote five, completing the last and best-known, Die Hochzeit des Camacho, when he was 16. But he also lived in an era when operatic managements had fearsome control over content, and was forced to make changes to Camacho before its 1827 premiere. It rankled – for the rest of his life, one suspects.Its revivals have been sporadic. The latest, a collaboration between the E...

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