review / performance

Trick mirror Trick mirror

A recent conversation with a friend who has loved Die Frau ohne Schatten for twice as long as I have been alive revealed that we both had some unresolved questions about the plot.

on December 02, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Servant leadership Servant leadership

Christina Colanduoni on Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Le Nozze di Figaro

on November 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM
All the light we cannot hear All the light we cannot hear

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s program of works by Mozart and Kevin Puts, a composer championed by star Renée Fleming, was one of musical and artistic contrasts.

on November 27, 2024 at 9:00 AM
And suddenly that name will never be the same And suddenly that name will never be the same

Christopher Corwin reviews Pablo Larraín‘s Maria

on November 26, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Hello to Berlin Hello to Berlin

Montagu James reviews the US tour of the Kirill Petrenko-led Berlin Philharmonic

on November 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Sisters are doing it for themselves Sisters are doing it for themselves

War! Heroism! Mysterious strangers! Attempted suicide! Steadfast love! Così fan tutte, as staged November 18-21 at Juilliard Opera, had… none of these things.

on November 25, 2024 at 9:00 AM
It takes a woman It takes a woman

The plight of two women, each from different backgrounds, was on full display in San Francisco opera houses last week.

on November 21, 2024 at 9:00 AM
An afternoon at the opera An afternoon at the opera

Il trovatore may be famous for its melodramatic plot and unlikely mistaken identities, but surely even Verdi and Cammarano couldn’t have imagined the chaos of a performance featuring two Manricos and two Leonoras.

on November 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Thane enthusiasm Thane enthusiasm

Washington National Opera’s second full-run offering of the season, a new production of Verdi’s perennially appealing Macbeth, premiered last Wednesday at the Kennedy Center.

on November 19, 2024 at 9:00 AM
A Christmas story A Christmas story

This archly traditional production of La bohème was a little shaky on opening night. It nevertheless had a full complement of sterling individual performances to take us on home.

on November 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Character assassination Character assassination

Austin Opera’s 2024 production of The Manchurian Candidate proved to be a daring and timely commentary on political power in America, shortly after the 2024 election, just as it had been before the 2016 election.

on November 15, 2024 at 9:00 AM
On an evening in Roma On an evening in Roma

After an uneven gala performance of Tosca on Tuesday, I’m not sure what the Met means by “celebrating Puccini.”

on November 14, 2024 at 9:00 AM
<em>Aïda</em>, harder not smarter <em>Aïda</em>, harder not smarter

With Boston Lyric Opera’s largest opera production of the season already well behind us, the one-off semi-staged gala performance of Aïda held on Sunday at Emerson College’s Colonial Theatre to support the company’s vast education and community engagement apparatus, was a particularly enticing entry on the Boston cultural calendar.

on November 12, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Mixte blessings Mixte blessings

I was just moderately excited when LA Opera announced that French tenor Benjamin Bernheim would be coming to concertize at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, 90210.

on November 12, 2024 at 9:00 AM