A stylish and funny Così fan tutte at LA Opera is a pretty glam affair, according to Patrick Mack.
If Zambello’s season-ending Turandot last year represented some of the best of what WNO can offer in the standard rep, this Fidelio was a regression to the mean.
How does one make a performance of standard opera repertoire like Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro feel “fresh?”
We owe director John Doyle and Classic Stage Company a debt of gratitude for bringing Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock—warts and all—to the stage.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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