Wednesday's cast claimed a magnificent Sempronio, the old apothecary, in Richard Ollarsaba, whose bass is not only booming but beautiful. He had the character's eccentricities at his witty command.

Even before the first notes air, a reconstructed Haydn opera in its U.S. premiere carries at least as much curiosity as it does clout. Yet when Opera at Rutgers in collaboration with Musica Raritana — ...

Much as I revere him as a composer of symphonies and string quartets, Haydn has always seemed to me a total non-starter as an opera composer. A great part of the problem is, of course, the more ...

Puppet theater was popular during the 18th century. Patrons espoused it, fine composers and writers created for it, the populace came to see it. Haydn's patron, Prince Esterhazy, was no exception, and ...

Once again Sarasota Opera will produce a rarely heard work by a major composer when Joseph Haydn’s Deceit Outwitted (L’infedeltà delusa) opens, the last work in the company’s 2024 Winter Opera ...

LA CANTERINA, a two-act opera written by a young Joseph Haydn, premiered in 1767 in the Archbishop’s Summer Palace (today’s Government Office residence) in Bratislava. It is also the earliest opera ...

Composer anniversaries are a good reason to explore less obvious repertoire, and here Haydn’s operas are in the spotlight. He didn’t have a Mozartian gift for tightly paced drama, but the individual ...

In 1958, rummaging through the Hungarian National Library in Budapest, a young U.S. musicologist named H. C. Robbins Landon unearthed a treasure-trove of eight operas by Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores ...

The Peabody Opera Theatre gave a spirited presentation of “La Fedelta Premiata” on Friday, and should be commended for giving Baltimore a rare opportunity to experience this example of the neglected ...

After a season of dark and tragic stories, the Sarasota Opera closes with much lighter fare that will be new to just about everyone. Joseph Haydn’s “Deceit Unwitted” (or “L’infedelta delusa”) had its ...