Sonya Yoncheva reviews
Puccini: La bohème (DVD)
Sonya Yoncheva, Charles Castronovo et al; Royal Opera House Orchestra/Emmanuel Villaume (Opus Arte / DVD)
Rebirth (Sonya Yoncheva)
Sonya Yoncheva (soprano); Cappella Mediterranea/Leonardo García Alarcón (Sony Classical)
The Verdi Album: Arias from Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, Attila, et al
Sonya Yoncheva; Munich Radio Orchestra/Massimo Zanetti (BR Klassik)
A bold new take on Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea
‘Cognitive dissonance reigns as gorgeous music engulfs a drama about moral implosion’
Watch Antonio Pappano conduct Bellini's Norma
First staged on 12 September 2016, the Royal Opera’s new Normawas the work of Spanish director Alex Ollé, one of the artistic co-directors of the theatre group La Fura dels Baus. In a programme note included with this DVD/Blu-ray release he asks the rhetorical questions, ‘Some will see [Norma] as a traitor to her country and her religion, but what is she really guilty of having done? Falling in love?