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.
Franz Welser-Möst leads a rigorous, if emotionally staid, performance of Verdi‘s Requiem at Carnegie Hall.
A Strauss rarity receives a ravishing concert performance at Seattle Opera.
Lise Davidsen‘s first Isolde is only one of the highlights of Tristan und Isolde at the Liceu in Barcelona.
A classic German fairytale gets a modern update at the Staatsoper Berlin.
The 20th anniversary revival of Richard Foreman and Michael Gordon‘s What to Wear at the PROTOTYPE Festival showcases a fabulous ensemble.
Esa-Pekka Salonen and The Los Angeles Philharmonic serve a feast for all five senses.
Two recent Paminas feature in concerts at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.
The oddball pairing of Bernie Williams and Jonathan Tetelman doesn’t quite knock it out of the park at Carnegie Hall.
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Hildegard gives the Middle Ages the Bridgerton treatment at the Prototype Festival.
A pairing of rarities makes for an inspired evening with the Brooklyn Art Song Society.
A high-drama Vanessa by the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers something to believe in.
A messy new I puritani at the Met is a historic and historical disappointment.
“Call me traditional, but I want to see a silver platter!”
Fine music-making meets a clunker of a production in La Monnaie‘s revival of Norma
A starry (and potentially annual) Christmas gala lights up Carnegie Hall.
Global warming meets the cool factor in The Seasons.
Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet mounts a raucous production of Hervé’s Le petit Faust.
America’s own Faust gets a compelling operatic treatment, courtesy of DC’s IN Series
Matthew Polenzani charms the pants off of Philadelphia.
A patchy production and musical performance can’t dull the edge of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Komische Oper Berlin
Washington National Opera’s holiday presentation of The Little Prince, based on the classic French novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, showcased the company’s Cafritz Young Artists
Washington Concert Opera began its 39th season last month with Christoph Willibald Gluck’s late masterpiece Iphigénie en Tauride.
An incoherent production of Ruslan and Lyudmila at the Hamburg State Opera may dispense with the fantastical, but Glinka‘s magic remains.
Les Arts Florissants present two ravishing programs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
