The controversy around Sarke Chunar Teri from KD: The Devil has intensified as questions arise over its lyrics. Featuring ...

As the saying goes, “Italians are born actors.” But Italians have no monopoly on this talent. In a review of an opera currently drawing capacity audiences at the Wiesbaden State Theater, the ...

In Ankara, the Italian operatic genius’ masterpiece revealed how a majestic opera can collapse under poor casting and artistic misdirection "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Gaetano Donizetti, a prominent 19th ...

The "Gaane Gaane Sanghati" (Solidarity through Songs) programme, planned in Chattogram to protest recent attacks on cultural groups, media institutions, artistes, and journalists, did not take place ...

The busy Satmasjid Road in Dhanmondi filled with voices as people gathered outside Chhayanaut on Tuesday afternoon, December 23, not for a routine cultural programme, but for a deliberate act of ...

The title-role in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor is one of the pinnacles of the bel canto repertoire. It’s a role that made Joan Sutherland’s career when she sang it at Covent Garden in 1959 and it ...

When one thinks of Donizetti, one immediately thinks of opera: sparkling comedies or intense melodramas. Yet it must be remembered that Donizetti also composed, almost furtively, a large number of ...

“Monsieur Donizetti seems to treat us like a conquered country,” wrote Hector Berlioz in his review of the premiere of La Fille du régiment at the Opéra-Comique in 1840. “It is a veritable invasion.” ...

The Donizetti Opera has announced its 2026 season. The festival, which is set to take place between Nov. 13 and 29, 2026, will showcase three operas. In a statement, Music Director Riccardo Frizza ...

Il campanello concerns the wedding – or rather the wedding night – of apothecary Don Annibale Pistacchio and his young bride Serafina. Her ex-lover, Enrico, tries to win her back and plots to keep ...

Shayan’s work is a blend of personal reflection and sharp social commentary, involving themes from lost relationships to biting political critiques. In songs like “Jonotar Beyadobi”, “Bhoy Banglay ...