Orsolya Gyárfás

Based in Budapest, Orsolya Gyárfás has been publishing opera reviews in English and Hungarian since 2016. Currently wrapping up a PhD focusing on Metastasian opera seria; general interests and obsessions include all things Baroque, queer, Regietheater, and any given combination of the above.

Dad, I’m seria Dad, I’m seria

Sir Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra strike (almost) all the right notes in their new recording of Mozart’s Idomeneo.

Psyché’d up Psyché’d up

It would be difficult to find a better description for Ambroise Thomas’s newly-recovered Psyché, recently heard in a new recording from Palazzetto Bru Zane, than the one uttered by her suitors: “Charmante Psyché!”