Christopher Corwin and Andrew Lokay provide dual perspectives on the National Symphony Orchestra‘s performances of Puccini’s triple-bill.
The oddball pairing of Bernie Williams and Jonathan Tetelman doesn’t quite knock it out of the park at Carnegie Hall.
Bernie Williams and Jonathan Tetelman take over Carnegie Hall for one night. You’ll be fine.
The plight of two women, each from different backgrounds, was on full display in San Francisco opera houses last week.
My vision may have been slightly blurry at the end.
“I come, I come! ye have called me long;
I come o’er the mountains, with light and song”
Puccini’s schmaltziest, most melodic, most dramatically limp, most cynical, most obscure mature work
Next week Puccini’s La Rondine returns to the Met for the first time in eleven years, so Chris’s Cache offers three quite diverse sopranos as Magda: Ljuba Welitsch, Virginia Zeani, and Cristina Gallardo-Domâs.
On October 20th, a wet but warmish Friday night, the Metropolitan Opera opened this season’s revival of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera in David Alden’s 2012 production.
San Francisco Opera has unveiled a brand-new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s warhorse classic La traviata, the first “to be built in San Francisco Opera’s scene and costume shops in 35 years.”
Tanglewood may bring the classical music crowd to Lenox, but for opera, it’s all about neighboring Pittsfield, Mass.
Winsome, tony, and studded with overbooked bistros, Tanglewood is not exactly crawling with bohemians these days.
According to my taste, Die Fledermaus is an intoxicating opera
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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