Performance Reviews
Reviews of operatic, vocal, and classical performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, all across America, and around the world.
Reviews of operatic, vocal, and classical performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, all across America, and around the world.
Barbara Hannigan mesmerizes as both a brilliant vocalist and a proficient opera conductor in a double bill of Strauss and La voix humaine with the New York Philharmonic.
Opera Baltimore concludes its season with a piercing semi-staged production of Pelléas et Mélisande.
Opera San José‘s La Traviata has all the buzz and energy of a world premiere.
A strong revival of Falstaff at the Los Angeles Opera proves a fitting farewell vehicle for Music Director James Conlon.
Gregory Spears’s Sleepers Awake mystifies and delights at Opera Philadelphia.
Led by a mesmerizing Anthony Roth Costanzo, Satyagraha at the Paris Opera dispenses with historical particularities for something for more elusive.
A strong revival of Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera and a recital by Benjamin Bernheim offered the chance to hear “Kuda, kuda” twice in two days.
The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players‘s vivacious music making compensates for uninspired storytelling in their staging of Utopia, Limited.
Dull conducting makes Der Freischütz miss its mark at Carnegie Hall.
SoCal goes Scandi in two recent concerts, with one featuring an appearance by Lise Davidsen.
An invigorating double bill at the San Francisco Symphony challenges how Bach “should” be performed.
Golda Schultz soldiers through illness at the New York Philharmonic.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra explores love and death in an intense, intelligent program featuring soprano Corinne Winters.
The embattled Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bring Adams and Dvorák to Carnegie Hall.
A new DVD recording of La Juive boasts considerable musical strengths in spite of a frustrating production.
Daring reimaginings of Cocteau and Wilde take the stage at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Golda Schultz casts darkness in an alluring light in an intimate recital at the New Orleans Opera Festival.
Kaija Saariaho’s spectral, shattering Innocence makes its Metropolitan Opera debut.
The inaugural New Orleans Opera Festival goes big across the Big Easy.
Back-to-back casts in the Metropolitan Opera’s revivals of Madama Butterfly and La traviata offer ample opportunity for soprano-gazing.
A first-time operagoer is lured to Thaïs at Opera Idaho by the promise of a new experience… and Neil, the Burmese python
Led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Yoann Combémorel, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra proves themselves the equal of any major American orchestra in a program of Mahler, Wagner, and Dawson.
Madama Butterfly confronts anime, virtual reality, and weeaboos in Matthew Ozawa‘s bold production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Barrie Kosky’s zany production of The Nose time-steps back onto the Komische Oper Berlin stage.
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