The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.
“Protect the dolls, they say, but who really cares for them?” This question, posed by performer Mara Snip during the postlude of Neuköllner Oper’s 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, had a clear answer: Aliens.
The 25th anniversary revival of Dead Man Walking at San Francisco Opera is most moving in its quietest moments
Ainadamar functions on two levels: as a defiant dance against fascist totalitarianism and as an exaltation of the diva.
A revival of Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly, a co-production between the Barbican and BBC Symphony Orchestra, landed in London last week.
Ainadamar never quite found its identity between the two poles of conceptual and concrete.
The second act of Dream of the Red Chamber reached the apex and provided the audience with soul-stirring fulfillment.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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