With no disrespect to Nadine Sierra, who as Lucia acquits herself honorably if not magically in vocal terms, the undisputed cause célèbre here is director Simon Stone.
I’ve enjoyed these streamed recitals, warts and all, and always appreciate the chance to watch performers let their hair down, so to speak.
Saturday afternoon’s performance of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Met was awash with contradictions.
Politics and romance entangled in a spectacular fashion at San Francisco Operas’s Roméo et Juliette.
You’d want to expect that every Met retread would draw the same curiosity, the same large crowds, to Lincoln Center.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s “Music of Faith” with the Philadelphia Orchestra was a sensational concert, perhaps the best I’ve heard in more than a season.
Isn’t it nice to know a lot? And a little bit not.
Published in 1975, James McCourt’s novel Mawrdew Czgowchwz is engaged with a longing for the divine.
The 2016 Richard Tucker Award recipient is Tamara Wilson.
The unevenly-beating Heart unfortunately proved less than the sum of its deluxe parts.
An opera revolving around chastity vows, adultery, slut-shaming, lesbianism, transvestism and much more!
The annual Richard Tucker Gala is probably the event of the year to indulge your love of verismo staples and can belto screaming.
After nearly three years and over 20 performances Michael Mayer’s “Las Vegas” production of Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera still outrages many.
Well that’s a terrible place to start a review, and it’s not quite fair to SFO’s Lucia di Lammermoor, but…
I have an idea (soon to be angrily debunked in the comments section) that Le nozze di Figaro is rarely a source of unalloyed bliss to the chronic operagoer.
Töt erst sein Weib!” shrieks Anja Kampe as Leonore during the very first moments of Andreas Homoki’s ingenious production of Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, at Opernhaus Zürich.
Imagine the good fortune of attending La Bohème with someone who’s never seen it!
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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