Come on, baby, and rescue me
In Smetana‘s Dalibor, a rescue opera and a nationalistic fable collide at this year’s SummerScape Festival
America runs on Duncan
The opening of Teatro Nuovo’s Macbeth next week is the first of two opportunities this year to hear the opera in its original 1847 Version
Elektra becomes mourning
Chris’s Cache presents for carefree summer listening a delightful 20th century operetta featuring a perhaps unexpected casting surprise in the title role: Lehár’s Die Lustige Witwe starring Hildegard Behrens.
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Change my mind about Joan Sutherland’s Norma
Joan Sutherland as Norma is something I’ve never been able to get.
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La Calisto
A performance of Cavalli's opera recorded last week at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Les contes d’Hoffmann
A live video broadcast from Zurich starring Saimir Pirgu in the title role
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A live broadcast from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
I don’t understand the booing of singers, whether it’s booing bad characters, or booing singers who don’t live up to the booer’s expectations.
I so don’t get why any company in the Anglophone world ever bothers to perform Continental operetta in English.
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Les Brigands at the Paris Opera is an expensive joke that never lands
This evening of Julius Eastman at Lincoln Center was so good it hurt
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The opening of the Santa Fe Opera’s season is the perfect occasion to highlight its Susanna, American soprano Liv Redpath
A new production of Dialogues des Carmélites featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci proves that it’s hard to be an iconoclast in Venice.
When I first encountered Joyce DiDonato in the early 2000s, I found her to be the case of an extraordinary technique and intelligent artistry supporting a rather ordinary voice.
A performance recorded last month and reviewed here featuring Véronique Gens, Niamh O’Sullivan, Regula Mühlemann, and Peter Rose
My contention here is more general than just a critique of an opera, a composer, or a singer. I argue that one cannot be a truly legendary artist unless one sings NEW MUSIC.
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Mere days remain to make your voice heard for this summer’s The Talk of the Town!
What better a way to honor Independence Day than with a bit of French-American partnering?
Pride weekend events at San Francisco Opera and Festival Opera are fabulous starts to the Bay Area summer
Opera Parallèle’s Harvey Milk Reimagined offers a fragmented portrait lacking the depth or coherence needed to honor Milk’s legacy
Parsifal just gives me the creeps – a muddy maundery concoction that wallows in faux religiosity, a creepy view of sin, and naïve redemption.
Perhaps it was the heatwave or the contentment of just having been able to hear her live again, but I went a bit overboard for this week’s Chris’s Cache in assembling an extravagant bouquet of Emőke Baráth, a favorite baroque diva.
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