When Puccini gave a copy of his early 1889 opera Edgar to a friend in later life, he wrote in Italian on the title page, “And may God preserve you from this opera!” In the wake of Opera Holland Park’s ...

In the centenary year of his death, it’s quite a challenge to find something new about Giacomo Puccini. Even if the name is more likely to pop up at The Guardian end of the market, the man’s works are ...

Opera Holland Park tries to make Puccini’s early failure work – with mixed results Even Puccini eventually disowned his second opera, Edgar. "It was an organism defective from the dramatic point of ...

With Liverpool FC playing a home match and the wet city streets busy with trick-or-treaters, Halloween may not have been the obvious night to launch a season of contemporary music including two world ...

Although directed with admirable directness, this staging tries and fails to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...

Opera Holland Park has a long and proud tradition of bringing to public attention works by Italian composers whose own considerable talents were somewhat eclipsed by those of their contemporary, or ...