John Dobson

After the Viennese premiere, the Fledermaus (the bat) conquered the world. It is one of the few operettas that are regularly performed at the ...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti’s 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink memorably directs a superb ...

La Fanciulla del West, Puccini’s penultimate opera is based on a play by David Belasco set at the height of the notorious California gold ...

This first-rate 1982 production of Verdi’s Falstaff marked the great 20th century Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini’s return to opera ...