A high-drama Vanessa by the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers something to believe in.
Dan Johnson on the unique voice of Hildegard composer Sarah Kirkland Snider — and why some music could only ever be written by a woman.
I had the pleasure of going with some members of the Pittsburgh Opera to the PROTOTYPE Festival in New York at the start of the year- almost unfortunate it was so early on in 2025 because it set my expectations for the year so high!
Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center, according to The New York Times
A messy new I puritani at the Met is a historic and historical disappointment.
“Call me traditional, but I want to see a silver platter!”
Dan Johnson gives an inside look at the creation of Sarah Kirkland Snider‘s rapturous new opera Hildegard which opens at New York’s PROTOTYPE Festival next week.
A starry (and potentially annual) Christmas gala lights up Carnegie Hall.
Global warming meets the cool factor in The Seasons.
Juan Diego Flórez and Damiano Michieletto concoct an absinthe-fueled fever dream in a new DVD from The Royal Ballet and Opera and Opusarte.
America’s own Faust gets a compelling operatic treatment, courtesy of DC’s IN Series
Matthew Polenzani charms the pants off of Philadelphia.
Washington National Opera’s holiday presentation of The Little Prince, based on the classic French novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, showcased the company’s Cafritz Young Artists
Washington Concert Opera began its 39th season last month with Christoph Willibald Gluck’s late masterpiece Iphigénie en Tauride.
Les Arts Florissants present two ravishing programs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Across three evenings at the 92nd Street Y, Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz traversed all of Schubert‘s major song cycles with stark intensity.
In recital for the Los Angeles Opera, tenor Ben Bliss makes the case for the next stage of his career.
It is a physical pleasure to hear Kate Lindsey at close quarters.
“This isn’t an opera that touches on queer themes; it’s a bundle of queer themes tied up in an opera.”
Like Type 2 Diabetes, symptoms of YAS (Yuletide Aversion Syndrome) commonly creep up on gay men after manopause.
A consideration of Anika Kildegaard’s extraordinary recital in Philadelphia—and the oddity of recitals themselves.
Composer Philip Venables talks about queer utopias and bending gender and genre in The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions which opens at the Park Avenue Armory this week.
Barbara Strozzi links two sensuous programs by L’Arpeggiata and Catapult Opera.
Are today’s stars enough to sustain Andrea Chénier?
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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