Era il 25 marzo 1895 quando debuttava al teatro alla Scala di Milano l’opera Silvano. Arrivava cinque settimane dopo la prima assoluta di Guglielmo Ratcliff, in quel momento l’opera della vita di ...

Silvano doesn’t get much mention in the history books. Mascagni wrote it five years after his single most famous opera, Cavalleria Rusticana. It never took on, lacking the fast-moving thrills and ...

A combination of the popular and less well known at Cadogan Hall Set against the backdrop of a fishing village on the Adriatic Sea, it begins with the title character having been exiled for smuggling, ...

ALL things considered – a dreich, blowy Tuesday evening, and a completely unknown work – Scottish Opera did well to attract the audience it did to the Usher Hall, and acoustically the venue was ...