Productions of neglected Italian operas have featured prominently at Opera Holland Park, and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Zazà was well due for revival. A relative success at its Milan premiere in 1900 and ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Opera Holland Park likes to uphold its tradition of unearthing overlooked repertoire. It has found something ...
Opera Holland Park enjoys disinterring neglected works, and Leoncavallo’s Zazà, premiered in 1900, is worth the effort: it has a story to tell, and the musical wherewithal to tell it. Zazà is a ...
11:25, Sun, Jul 23, 2017 Updated: 11:31, Sun, Jul 23, 2017 The latest gem is Zazà by Ruggero Leoncavallo, composer of Pagliacci. Why the opera has been so rarely performed is a mystery. True, there is ...
Ermonela Jaho was brilliant in the title role, part of a staging that redeemed Leoncavallo’s underappreciated opera about a singer in a French music hall Ruggero Leoncavallo thought Zazà, first ...
But it’s certainly a piece that merits its current resuscitation, and Opera Holland Park has done it proud in an exemplary production by Marie Lambert that suggests both the tawdry glamour of ...
Opera Rara's latest recording and performance project is Leoncavallo's Zazà. Featuring Ermonela Jaho, Nicky Spence, Patricia Bardon and Riccardo Massi with the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, ...
Although Opera Rara gave a concert performance of Zazà at the Barbican in 2015, and also recorded it for CD, it remains an opera by Leoncavallo that was immensely popular when it premiered in 1900 but ...
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