Teatro Nuovo pays tribute to a historic New York production of Don Giovanni with a talented ensemble.
Despite some fine performances, Così fan tutte at the Livermore Valley Opera doesn’t quite click into place.
Will Liverman and Kiera Duffy brought an eclectic program to their jovial post-blizzard recital at Rhode Island College.
The Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva has died at 98.
A conversation with maestro Gil Rose of Odyssey Opera.
While Farinelli and the King isn’t the only Broadway play to have explored castration (Sweet Bird of Youth, anyone?) it’s likely the first to concern a legendary 18th century opera star.
Between Fidelio and Der Freischutz there was “Romantische Oper,” a type of musical drama descended from medieval mystery plays in which ghosts, gnomes and other “invisibles” get entangled in the lives of unsuspecting people.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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