Tag Archives: Il Viaggio a Reims

Lucrezia Borgia, and Il Viaggio a Reims, English Touring Opera, ETO, March 2023

Posted on 6 March 2023

English Touring Opera is a gem of a company. It creates sensible productions and tours them widely from Exeter to Durham. This review covers Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia and Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims. Unable to afford big name directors who sometimes bend the original creation to their will, ETO gives us what the composer intended, allowing …

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Il Viaggio a Reims, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, July 2012

Posted on 20 July 2012

This anniversary gala concert united Jette Parker Young Artists with several earlier performers from that programme who have since gone on to international careers, and Il Viaggio a Reims (The Journey to Rheims) was the perfect piece to bring them together. Written by Rossini to celebrate the coronation of Charles X in 1825, it all takes place at a spa hotel, where …

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