Gioachino Rossini’s La donna del lago, a two-act opera based on Sir Walter Scott’s poetical epic The Lady of the Lake, enjoyed widespread popularity for several decades following its premiere in 1819, ...

Nor, indeed, has London seen a production of this opera since Covent Garden’s 1985 outing which, I’m reliably informed, boasted (good news) the great Marilyn Horne as Malcolm (bad news) in a terrible ...

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I recently took a punt on a ridiculously cheap ticket to see the now sold outat the Royal Opera House, secure in the knowledge that if the sound quality was crap then at least I could easily call the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Even with one of the world's most athletic opera singers at her side and plenty of practice, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato reckons the latest London production of Gioachino ...

Gioachino Rossini's La Donna del Lago (“The Lady of the Lake”), which has just opened at the Royal Opera House, is an operatic rarity of the first order – hardly ever performed, according to its ...

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There was plenty of star power in the house for the Metropolitan Opera’s first-ever production of Rossini’s “La Donna del Lago” (1819), which is pretty much the only reason to do this convoluted piece ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Even with one of the world’s most athletic opera singers at her side and plenty of practice, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato reckons the latest London production of Gioachino ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake, the heroine is introduced as “a monument of Grecian art . . . the ...