The Herald (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Review: Throughout its two-month tour of Britain, English Touring Opera’s production of Donizetti’s opera Anna Bolena has been picking up good reviews. On Saturday, Perth found out why as the opera closed its run at the Perth Festival.
Feigned Mischief (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Puccini’s Tosca and Turandot. Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. So far these are the only opera productions that I have seen and enjoyed in the last 2 years since I became an opera fan. As opera tickets doesnt come easy on the pocket unlike theatre, I usually wait till it's a production that I really wanted to see that I [...]
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
In a climate in which bel canto opera seems to be enjoying a steady and welcome revival, ETO opened their current season with a welcome production of Donizetti's historically dubious account of the latter days of Anne Boleyn. The company's...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
English Touring Opera really are getting their act together, with two other new productions in addition to Donizetti's seldom-seen Anna Bolena. And, as ETO director James Conway observes, it can't hurt their box-office that the English queen famously beheaded with a sword is currently getting so much attention.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
English Touring Opera really are getting their act together, with two other new productions in addition to Donizetti's seldom-seen Anna Bolena. And, as ETO director James Conway observes, it can't hurt their box-office that the English queen famously beheaded with a sword is currently getting so much attention.
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
Warwick Thompson [Bloomberg.com, 17 March 2008] March 17 (Bloomberg) -- There are few things more heartening to an opera lover than a queen boiling with jealousy, going mad, and getting her head chopped off. Donizetti's ``Anna Bolena'' (Anne Boleyn) hits every mark.
The Stage (Free subscription) | 14/03/2008
Hackney Empire, London : Forget cinema - when it comes to Tudorbethan drama, Donizetti got there first. Within a week of the release of a film about the Boleyn sisters, ETO scores a canny coup with its own take on Anne's life. This is, in effect, a prequel to the same team's acclaimed 2005 production of Maria Stuarda. Read the full review
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 01/11/2007
By Daniel Mendelsohn Lucia di Lammermoor an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, directed by Mary Zimmerman In February 1834, Gaetano Donizetti, whom the premiere of his Anna Bolena four years earlier had made a star of the Italian opera world, accepted with joy an invitation by Rossini to compose an opera for the Théâtre-Italien in Paris. As the vehicle for his entrée into...
