Kaija Saariaho’s spectral, shattering Innocence makes its Metropolitan Opera debut.
Though perhaps showing its age, a storied production of La bohème nonetheless makes a welcome return to the Los Angeles Opera
The 25th anniversary revival of Dead Man Walking at San Francisco Opera is most moving in its quietest moments
A stylish and funny Così fan tutte at LA Opera is a pretty glam affair, according to Patrick Mack.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s program of works by Mozart and Kevin Puts, a composer championed by star Renée Fleming, was one of musical and artistic contrasts.
Some operas carry around the shadow of their most famous interpreters more than others.
The score for Innocence was menacing yet comforting, and, essentially, violent and peaceful at the same time
“None of that sentimental crap, okay?”
It was Matthew Jocelyn’s libretto, with its disorientingly deconstructive approach to its source text, that gave Brett Dean’s Hamlet its identity.
A special program note for Saturday night’s performance of Matthew Aucoin’s new opera Eurydice pointed to a rare convergence of three MacArthur Grant fellows in its creation and staging.
A double-barreled “Trove Thursday” birthday salute to Renée Fleming who turns 60 today.
Just because one can write an opera based on a film, does this necessarily indicate that one should?
Matthew Aucoin’s Crossing depicts Walt Whitman’s experience serving wounded soldiers in a DC infirmary and chronicles the period’s tragic effects.
anatomy theater, receiving its New York premiere Saturday night at this year’s Prototype Festival, is a conceptual exercise in which nothing, absolutely nothing is left to the imagination.
David Lang is, per The New Yorker, a “postminimalist enfant terrible.”
Idomeneo proved enormously moving while a much more complicated Così fan Tutte went for shallow romantic hijinks stripping that work of its darkly ambiguous disturbing view of love.
Adapting a novel, especially a well known novel like Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron, can be a herculean task. The two conflicting, almost mutually exclusive, forces at work are the desire to create a great work for the stage, while at the same time remaining true to all the nuanced characterizations and storylines present in…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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