Christopher Corwin surveys the three Traviata casts — led by Lisette Oropesa, Rosa Feola, and Ermonela Jaho — at the Met this spring.
The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.
By the time the curtain rose on Verdi’s Luisa Miller last Sunday in Washington Concert Opera’s final show of the season, the originally announced line-up was about as accurate as a federal agency org chart from February.
Washington National Opera’s second full-run offering of the season, a new production of Verdi’s perennially appealing Macbeth, premiered last Wednesday at the Kennedy Center.
In 2022, making Così fan tutte intimate is not a radical act. Making it enjoyable, however, is.
I can think of no other role that provides the most unique promise of humiliation, and consequently the most opportunity for glory.
Bellini blossomed over us like a love fest.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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