Music Director Eun Sun Kim is at the center of the repertory, and a long Wagner arc is now officially underway
A fine Don Giovanni at Opera Philadelphia rounds out the company’s inaugural season under Anthony Roth Costanzo
“The distance between dreams and reality is called action.” – Brian Tracy
Bay Area composer Mason Bates’s and librettist Mark Campbell’s contemporary opera about the life of the tech mogul Steve Jobs came home “to the place where it all began” in spectacular fashion
Although Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti is always categorized as an opera, the piece certainly has one foot planted firmly in his jazzy musical-theater style.
It’s a pity that Francis Poulenc took so long to getting around to compose his operas.
I fall on my knees before this new live recording
issued by the San Francisco Symphony.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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