In Gleiß und Zeir
Iwona Sobotka, a favorite of Riccardo Muti, is this week’s featured Grand Tier Grab Bag artist
Iwona Sobotka, a favorite of Riccardo Muti, is this week’s featured Grand Tier Grab Bag artist
Amartuvshin Enkhbat is superb in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra in San Francisco — even if the drama offstage is more persuasive than this new production.
Tenet Vocal Artists‘s first-ever opera production, of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, soars to Platonic ideals.
Most stunning mezzo performance in the premiere of an opera at the Met.
Richard Lynn muses on whether the Met can make good on its exciting new promise of “Opera For All” while the goals of its $1.5 billion fundraising campaign remain murky.
The Metropolitan Opera gets its freak on — or about as close as it can — in a revival of its Coney Island-set production of Così fan tutte.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin opens Philadelphia’s symphonic season in typically sunny style with programs feautring Beethoven, Brahms, and Bernstein.
Last September I was most excited by Handel oratorios being performed during the 2025-26 season. This time I’m really looking forward to three of the composer’s operas arriving within a few weeks of each other in Spring 2027.
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo by Haymarket Opera and The Newberry Consort takes its audience to heaven while its title character goes to hell.
Isn’t it fun to see the Virgin Queen spew out some coloratura?
A new Macbeth summons the forces of hell — and the star power of Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen — for a fiery start to the Met’s new season.
Eichenholz is much too rare on stage these days.
Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.
Haley Whitney shines as the mother of us all in The Marigny Opera Ballet‘s stirring staging of Scarlatti’s Cain.
The mezzo international anthem is so oversung that we forget how hard it is to sing.
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