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Rob Holdsworth

Roberto Devereux (Melbourne Opera) ★★★★1/2

Rob Holdsworth
Monday, 13 November 2017

Melbourne Opera’s latest production is Gaetano Donizetti’s 1837 lyric tragedy Roberto Devereux, the last in his so-called Tudor trilogy. The company staged Mary Stuart in 2015 and Anna Bolena in 2016, to considerable acclaim. However, this airing of Robert Devereux, an Australian première, is something else. Put simply ...

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The Barber of Seville (Melbourne Opera)

Rob Holdsworth
Monday, 29 June 2015

Writing to a friend in 1898, Giuseppe Verdi said of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville:

You may say things about Rossini and they may be true regarding the borrowings, the speed of composition and so forth, but I confess that I cannot help believing ‘The Barber of Seville’ for abundance of ideas, for verve and for truth of dec ...
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