The dazzling and deeply moving Complications in Sue bodes well for Anthony Roth Costanzo‘s stewardship of Opera Philadelphia.
Esa-Pekka Salonen and The Los Angeles Philharmonic serve a feast for all five senses.
Global warming meets the cool factor in The Seasons.
But pressing questions remains: Why? Who is this Figaro for?
Mixing the historical with the personal in strikingly original ways, Davóne Tines and Zack Winokur’s Robeson sent sparks out over the Hudson.
New York shall never be in need of another Messiah to assist to during the holiday season, but a new tradition is beginning to crystallize at the cavernous St. John the Divine to rival it.
While one sympathized with Matthew Aucoin’s urge to add his voice to the Orpheus canon it was difficult to figure out how his work complemented Gluck’s.
I had my head in my hands groaning in disbelief instead of joining in the general applause around me.
The production is at all times visually arresting, but it’s also extremely distracting.
An opera revolving around chastity vows, adultery, slut-shaming, lesbianism, transvestism and much more!
The wealthy suburban community of Greenwich, CT is a place where diamonds are in no short supply. Yet there are still some diamonds of artistic excellence hidden in this seaside town, including the shockingly well-done production of Hans Werner Henze’s The Runaway Slave (El Cimarrón) by the Greenwich Music Festival. This most likely will be…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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