The Comet/Poppea at this summer’s Running AMOC* festival at Lincoln Center is a thrilling, startling, deeply moving experience
The audience greeted the opening night of Omar with more genuine enthusiasm than I have ever seen at Los Angeles Opera.
Opera Philadelphia’s Love of Three Oranges is never less than extravagantly entertaining theater.
With the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Candide, they saved the best (of all possible worlds) for last.
Curtis Opera ventured Sweeney Todd.
Jonathan Dove’s Flight is an opera that makes excellent use of setting.
The Rape of Lucretia, now (through Sunday) enjoying a superb three-performance run at the Juilliard Opera’s Willson Theater (tickets are scarce; hie thee to the waiting list), was Benjamin Britten’s third opera and first “chamber opera,” composed for the tiny original theater at Glyndebourne,
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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