The Met's new lineup includes Lucia di Lammermoor and all three parts of the Tudor trilogy. Each opera becomes available on the Metropolitan Opera's website at 7:30pm EDT (12:30am BST) and stays there ...

Elza van den Heever in the Met’s Maria Stuarda. Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera This a banner year for Donizetti at the Metropolitan Opera, propelled by soprano Sondra Radvanovsky’s ambition to ...

It has been a good year for Gaetano Donizetti. For the season opener, Glyndebourne has chosen Poliuto, his story of religious persecution and martyrdom in Roman-occupied Armenia, never heard in the UK ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. These are the sort of discoveries one expects at Donizetti Opera, a festival in the composer’s Northern Italian ...

"A funeral procession in five acts" is how one critic described Dom Sébastien, Donizetti's last opera, first performed in Paris in 1843. A terminal work in every sense, it deals with the futility and ...

Simon Stone’s remarkable new production of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” which opened at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday, updates the opera to a dying American Rust Belt community in the ...

This is the expanded French version of the opera about the early Christian martyrs revived by Glyndebourne this year as “Poliuto”. Additions include a new finale and a ballet, but it’s the overall ...

Act Two wraps up with a furious trio for Nottingham (baritone Alberto Gazale), Elizabeth (soprano Carmela Remigio) and Devereux (tenor Massimiliano Pisapia). Nottingham kicks it off by declaring that ...

In Act Two, Nemorino (tenor Celso Albelo) sings the bittersweet aria "Una furtiva lagrima." He sees "one secret tear" in Adina's eye, a sign that he may still have a chance with her, and says he'd ...