Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung at Canadian Opera Company deliver on fine performances even if Robert Lepage‘s production skimps on horror.
A uniformly strong cast triumphs over a dull production of Don Carlo at the Dallas Opera.
Music Director Eun Sun Kim is at the center of the repertory, and a long Wagner arc is now officially underway
A messy new I puritani at the Met is a historic and historical disappointment.
Only the singers, led by Benjamin Bernheim, can salvage a dismal La Damnation de Faust at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées.
Don Carlos returns to the Opéra National de Paris and it’s an unusually happy occasion
My first introduction to Béla Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle was the musicologist Susan McClary’s infamous book Feminine Endings. Here, McClary likened her search of a feminist musicology to Judith’s journey through the seven doors; a journey that ends in Judith’s symbolic death.
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