San Francisco goes baroque with performances of Handel‘s Alcina, Tolomeo, and Rinaldo.
Barbara Strozzi links two sensuous programs by L’Arpeggiata and Catapult Opera.
La bohème at The Santa Fe Opera feels warmed over in more ways than one.
For the season opener, Opera San José decided to explore the class conflict central to Le nozze di Figaro by transporting the opera to India, specifically during the British Raj.
Last weekend marked the opening night for West Edge Opera: Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
Mariachi bands travel the world, make appearances in Hollywood, and moonlight on Linda Ronstadt albums.
Emilio Sagi’s production of The Barber of Seville is ungepotchket in the flesh.
With a primary color, projection-heavy English-language Magic Flute that’s going to feel like a matinee whenever you see it, the SFO season has lived up to its initial promise.
Kitsch is alive and well in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the War Memorial.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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