Emirena (Ellie Laugharne) and Farnaspe (Erica Eloff) in Classical Opera’s 2015 production of J.C. Bach’s Adriano in Siria © Classical Opera
Here you can find a list of all the operas I’ve written about, arranged by composer in alphabetical order. As you’ll see, the vast majority are Baroque, but there are one or two interlopers. Below the index of operas you’ll also find a list of concerts, arranged by surname of artist, and a list of other Baroque-related things.
OPERAS
Thomas ARNE (1710-1778)
- The Judgement of Paris (1742) – Bampton Classical Opera 2016
Johann Christian BACH (1735-1782)
- Adriano in Siria (1765) – Classical Opera 2015
Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)
- The Turn of the Screw (1954) – Glyndebourne 2011
Francesco CAVALLI (1602-1676)
- Calisto (1651) – English Touring Opera 2016
- Calisto (1651) – La Nuova Musica 2016
- Elena (1649) – Aix-en-Provence Festival 2013 [DVD]
- Eliogabalo (1667) – Opéra de Paris 2016
- Ercole Amante (1662) – Dutch National Opera 2009 [DVD]
- Ormindo (1644) – Royal Opera House / Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 2015
- Xerse (1654) – Theater an der Wien 2015
Christoph Willibald GLUCK (1714-1787)
- Antigono (1756) – Ensemble Serse 2015
- Philemon and Baucis (1769) – Bampton Classical Opera 2016
George Frideric HANDEL (1685-1759)
- Alcina (1735) – Aix-en-Provence Festival 2015 [broadcast]
- Alcina (1735) – Longborough Festival Opera 2016
- Alessandro (1726) – Halle Handel Festival 2015
- Arminio (1737) – Karlsruhe 2016
- Catone in Utica (1732) [pasticcio] – Opera Settecento 2015
- Elpidia (1725) [pasticcio] – Opera Settecento 2016
- Giove in Argo (1739) – London Handel Festival 2015
- Giulio Cesare (1724) – Glyndebourne 2005 [DVD]
- Hercules (1745) – The English Concert 2015
- Lucio Cornelio Silla (1713) – Halle Handel Festival 2015
- Oreste (1734) [pasticcio] – Royal Opera House / Wilton’s 2016
- Semele (1744) – London Handel Festival 2015
- Xerxes (1738) – Les Talens Lyriques 2000 [DVD]
- Xerxes (1738) – ENO 2014
- Xerxes (1738) – Hampstead Garden Opera 2015
- Xerxes (1738) – Oper am Rhein 2015
- Xerxes (1738) – Longborough Festival Opera 2015
- Xerxes (1738) – English Touring Opera 2016
- Xerxes (1738) – Early Opera Company 2016
Johann Adolph HASSE
Joseph HAYDN (1732-1809)
Niccolò JOMMELLI (1714-1774)
- Vologeso (1766) – Classical Opera 2016
Stefano LANDI (1587-1639)
- Sant’ Alessio (1632) – Les Arts Florissants 2007 [DVD]
Claudio MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
- Incoronazione di Poppea (1643) – Les Arts Florissants 2010 [DVD]
- Incoronazione di Poppea (1643) – Norwegian National Opera 2010 [DVD]
- Incoronazione di Poppea (1643) – Barbican 2014
- Incoronazione di Poppea (1643) – Theater an der Wien 2015
- Orfeo (1607) – Royal Opera House / Roundhouse 2015
- Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (1640) – English Touring Opera 2016
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
- Abduction from the Seraglio (1782) – Glyndebourne 2015
- Clemenza di Tito (1791) – Salzburg Festival 2003 [DVD]
- Clemenza di Tito (1791) – Metropolitan Opera 2012 [broadcast]
- Don Giovanni (1787) – Royal Opera House 2015
- Don Giovanni (1787) – Hampstead Garden Opera 2015
- Idomeneo (1780) – Royal Opera House 2014
- Idomeneo (1780) – Trinity Laban 2015
- Marriage of Figaro (1786) – Royal Opera House 2015 [broadcast]
- The Magic Flute (1791) – Hampstead Garden Opera 2016
Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI (1710-1736)
- Adriano in Siria (1734) – Opera Settecento 2015
- Salustia (1732) – Teatro Pergolesi, Jesi [DVD]
Henry PURCELL (1659-1695)
- The Indian Queen (1695) – ENO 2015
Luigi ROSSI (1597-1653)
- Orpheus (1647) – Royal Opera House / Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 2015
Leonardo VINCI (1690-1730)
- Artaserse (1730) – I Barocchisti / Parnassus 2012 [DVD]
- Catone in Utica (1728) – Il Pomo d’Oro / Parnassus 2015 [CD recording]
- Catone in Utica (1728) – Il Pomo d’Oro / Parnassus 2015 [staged production]
- Partenope (1725) – I Turchini 2011 [DVD]
Antonio VIVALDI (1678-1741)
- Ercole sul Termodonte (1723) – Spoleto Festival 2006 [DVD]
- Oracolo in Messenia (1737) – Europa Galante 2015
Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)
- Tristan und Isolde – Royal Opera House 2014
CONCERTS
Cathy BELL
- Raging Roland – Handel House, 8 October 2015
Max Emanuel CENCIC
- Venezia – Wigmore Hall, 12 December 2014
Erica ELOFF
- The Triumphs and Trials of Love – Handel House, 14 July 2015
Franco FAGIOLI
- Arias for Caffarelli – Halle Handel Festival, 7 June 2015
- Arias for Caffarelli – Wigmore Hall, 13 November 2015
- Porpora Arias – Wigmore Hall, 21 September 2014
Ann HALLENBERG
- Che Puro Ciel – Wigmore Hall, 23 May 2016
Philippe JAROUSSKY
- Festival Concert – Halle Handel Festival, 4 June 2015
- Bach and Telemann – Wigmore Hall, 1 December 2016
Sonia PRINA
- Arias by Gluck – Wigmore Hall, 28 June 2016
Randall SCOTTING
- Recital with Marie van Rhijn – Handel House, 22 March 2015
Nathalie STUTZMANN
- Vivaldi: Nathalie Stutzmann and Orfeo 55 – Wigmore Hall, 2 July 2016
OTHER BAROQUE RELATED THINGS
- All the Angels: Handel and the First Messiah – Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 2015
- Charpentier: Le malade imaginaire – Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 2014
- Countertenor Albums [CDs]
- Farinelli and the King – Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 2015
- A first visit to Handel House
- Handel House Talent Scheme 2015-16
- Rameau: Maître a danser – Les Arts Florissants 2015
- Requiem pour les funérailles de Louis XV – Versailles 2016
- A Year in the Life of Handel: 1738 – Handel House 2014
