Opera Theatre of Saint Louis does its best to give magic in its summer productions of Roméo et Juliette and A Streetcar Named Desired.
The dazzling and deeply moving Complications in Sue bodes well for Anthony Roth Costanzo‘s stewardship of Opera Philadelphia.
Rolando Villazón opens up about his production of La sonnambula, how he develops characters, and what makes opera dance.
A new production of La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera is musically charming if dramatically confounding.
A fine Don Giovanni at Opera Philadelphia rounds out the company’s inaugural season under Anthony Roth Costanzo
Nigel Wilkinson reports on Teodor Curentzis and Peter Sellars‘s new production of Rameau‘s Castor et Pollux in Paris.
Christina Colanduoni on Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Anyone arriving at Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Rossini’s Cinderella (La Cenerentola) expecting the Disney-fied version of the story will be in for a surprise.
For the weeks between the announcement that the return of Wolf Trap Opera would, in part, take the form of a concert performance of Sweeney Todd and its opening at the Filene Center on Friday evening, I racked my brain: why Sweeney now?
This year’s treat was Vittorio Gnecchi’s Cassandra, completed around 1905
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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