Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio

Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio | Classical review

Royal Opera House, London; Coliseum, London; Welsh National Opera, CardiffLike Niobe, all tears. Hamlet managed to say in four words what Agostino Steffani took four hours to expound. Niobe was Queen of Thebes, as related in Ovid, whose children die as the gods' punishment for her shameful boasting, while she turns to stone. Fair enough. Steffani was an Italian composer of whom none but dedicated baroque specialists had consciously heard until the Royal Opera House made his 1688 opera Niobe, Reg...

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22:30 on September 24 2010

Niobe | Opera review

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London"All tears" is how Shakespeare famously described Niobe, the mythic queen of Thebes, whose pride was punished by the gods with the death of her c... more info

Niobe

23:06 on September 25 2010

Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio | Classical review

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London; Coliseum, London; Welsh National Opera, CardiffLike Niobe, all tears. Hamlet managed to say in four words what Agostino Steffani took four hour... more info

Faust Niobe

15:29 on September 24 2010