The Bayerische Staatsoper’s summer festival wound down with Lotte de Beer’s darkly effective production of Gounod ’sFaust.
San Francisco Opera hosts an exuberant tribute to queerness past and present.
Benjamin Bernheim opens up to Emma Hoffman about what really makes a French tenor ahead of his New York recital debut.
John Danaher on the world-premiere recording of Clémence de Grandval‘s wild and worthy Mazeppa, the latest release from the operatic archaeologists at Palazzetto Bru Zane.
American Bach brings out the operatic side of Bach in a program featuring sparkling vocal talents.
Juan Diego Flórez‘s charm and artistic sensibility remain as vibrant as ever, as seen at a recent Carnegie Hall recital.
Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet mounts a raucous production of Hervé’s Le petit Faust.
A double bill of rare Bizet works in Paris is not something any of us needs to do more than once
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.
It surprises even me how some operas have eluded me in live performance even after lo, these many years. One of them is Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.
It’s not hard not to feel jaded about Romeo and Juliet.
Rosa Feola, hailed last year for her Gilda at the Met, brought a level of vocal refinement and elegance to Juliet that substantially elevated the night’s proceedings.
On this day in 1883 the Metropolitan Opera House opened with Gounod‘s Faust.
On this day in 1900 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a revival of Roméo et Juliette.
On this day in 1965 Montserrat Caballé and Sherrill Milnes made their Metropolitan Opera debuts in Faust.
On this day in 1953 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a new production of Gounod’s Faust.
Everything’s coming up mélodie! As the pandemic rages on and new lockdowns have thrown large-scale performances into disarray, record labels have been releasing new albums of French art song by the bucketload.
Politics and romance entangled in a spectacular fashion at San Francisco Operas’s Roméo et Juliette.
Odyssey Opera’s Ägyptische Helena was a beautifully executed production of a flawed opera.
The finals on Sunday seemed a bit like the modern-day operatic equivalent of the Roman colosseum.
There are, on rare occasions, moments in a live performance where some intangible symbiotic relationship between audience and performer creates an instant that borders on the sublime.
Washington Concert Opera on the occasion of Gounod’s 200th birthday presented the American premiere of his first opera, Sapho.
Odyssey Opera in Boston, which loves to open its season with a concert performance of some forgotten work, gave La Reine de Saba in Jordan Hall Saturday night.
Our Own JJ catches up with the tail end of the Met season.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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