review / performance
I find it difficult to experience Madama Butterfly without also experiencing an odd fracturing of the self.
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At the Park Avenue Armory, Barbara Hannigan chose to sing works that tested her metal in odd corners of vocalism.
By John Yohalem
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In El Barbero de Sevilla, as given through the weekend by the New Camerata Opera, there is far too much comic dialogue, all of it in English and none of it sparkling.
By John Yohalem
Hannah Lash’s latest opera, which premiered at the Miller Theater on Wednesday night, was a musical and dramatic misfire.
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Soprano Lynn Spurgat returns to Carnegie Hall
Following a triumphant debut in 2018, soprano Lynn Spurgat returns to Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7:30 pm with pianist Jason Wirth for a program of beauty, drama and fun! This eclectic program features selections by Rossini, Rachmaninoff, Poulenc, Ginastera and Schoenberg’s Cabaret Songs.
Little Shop of Horrors loses its necessary edge when it’s wrested from the gritty world of its creation.
A sense of celebration was definitely in the air last Thursday at the Vienna State Opera.
An opera company presenting a Broadway musical that centers around a woman of a certain age travelling to Italy with her young daughter might seem more a vehicle for a great diva of a certain age.
By Patrick Mack
Luisa Miller snowballs toward disaster and death.
By Henson Keys
When soprano Yihan Duan started to sing her aria, you could feel an almost electric charge that something special was happening.
The Paris Opera assembled an all-French cast to stage arguably the most well-known example of opéra-ballet, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes.
There were plenty of Turan-do’s and only a few Turandon’ts at the Met’s Turandot Sunday afternoon.
I can’t think of an opera this year that I’ve enjoyed as much as Tuesday’s Met Macbeth, thanks especially to the smashing house debut of Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi as its blazing Madame M.
The opening night of the Canadian Opera Company’s 2019-20 season was all about the Wilsons.
By Ali Kashani
It’s an old chestnut of a joke that applies even more to opera than to the theatre: A veteran actor is on his deathbed.
By Henson Keys
