In Napoli where love is queen
Final opera of the season. Little-known opera. A revival. So, you can probably skip it, right?
Roy Rallo
5 pieces since 2018 — at 3 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
5
pieces
3
companies
9
years
Got to get you into my strife
Power struggles, prejudice, feuds and revenge abound in San Francisco at the moment.
There will be bloom
In the more than 500 years of the history of operas, rarely (if ever) has a coming of age story, particularly one from the child’s point of view, been presented as the main topic of the opera.
Great Chicago fire
If sheer clarion vocalism is what draws you to the opera, then hie thee to Lyric Opera of Chicago’s rousing revival Of Verdi’s Il Trovatore, the oddly plotted but musically sublime opera that opened last night in the David McVicar production, originally seen in 2006.
Gilt trip
As a diehard completist I felt guilty as the Met’s scattered, campy revival of Semiramide lumbered toward its abrupt conclusion after nearly four hours.