Music Director Eun Sun Kim is at the center of the repertory, and a long Wagner arc is now officially underway
Franz Welser-Möst leads a rigorous, if emotionally staid, performance of Verdi‘s Requiem at Carnegie Hall.
Asmik Grigorian’s scorching turn in Il trittico in Paris has Nigel Wilkinson wondering, ‘what is it that makes Americans so weepy?’
Washington Concert Opera returned on November 24th for its first show of the 2024-2025 season with a production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, another (relative) rarity from the composer following last year’s season-closing presentation of La rondine.
Some operas carry around the shadow of their most famous interpreters more than others.
As an opera fanatic who was baptized by the blood of Leontyne Price, the Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi appeared on my radar fairly soon after I started delving into the operatic canon.
When our friends at Naxos and C Major announced near-dueling releases of Puccini’s “shabby little shocker,” I was ready with my critic’s pen dipped in bile.
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Don Carlos was a real feast of good singing and orchestral grandeur.
Hie thee hither to the Lyric Opera House!
Looking at the Houston Grand Opera’s 2018/19 season, I think Hurricane Harvey subconsciously must have had an impact on the choice of operas.
Saturday night the Los Angeles Opera threw itself a party.
The 2016 Richard Tucker Award recipient is Tamara Wilson.
Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and a slew of their members of court are hanging out in the afterlife…
Hopefully the assignment of Herman Melville’s endless whaling opus Moby-Dick as compulsory reading for High School students is a thing of the past.
Renée Fleming is one of the most polarizing figures to be discussed here on an ongoing basis.
My first experience with John Corigliano’s music was in high school with the ear and mind blowing score he wrote for Ken Russell’s film Altered States.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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