Dull conducting makes Der Freischütz miss its mark at Carnegie Hall.
Seeing Sondra Radvanovsky as Medea at Lyric Opera of Chicago sprawled across the floor, soaked in her children’s blood, is proof that we’re witnessing an utterly haunting singer-actor.
This Bard production, led by Leon Botstein, makes the strongest possible case musically, dramatically and visually for Smetana’s opera Dalibor.
An impressive cast blurs binaries as John Adams‘s ambitious Antony and Cleopatra arrives at the Met
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