American Bach brings out the operatic side of Bach in a program featuring sparkling vocal talents.
Despite some fine performances, Così fan tutte at the Livermore Valley Opera doesn’t quite click into place.
Akhnaten has lost none of its power or glitz at the Los Angeles Opera.
Ahead of their opening in Don Carlo in Dallas tonight, Christopher Corwin chats with Nicole Car and Étienne Dupuis — and offers a special edition of Chris’s Cache!
San Diego Opera presents a strongly directed and cast revival of Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Under the baton of Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale proves they have a magic touch in a program of Rameau and Handel.
Die Entführung aus dem Serail boldly goes where no opera has gone before at Pacific Opera Project.
In an all-Mozart program with the San Francisco Symphony, Golda Schultz shows that her soubrette days are behind her.
It’s always surprised me how so many performances of the major Brecht/Weill collaborations seem to have zero clue of how to handle either Weill’s music.
Ahead of a special boozy, bawdy Valentine’s Day concert, artistic director of Opera Lafayette Patrick Quigley speaks with soprano Maya Kherani about her journey from MIT to rising American Baroque star.
A Strauss rarity receives a ravishing concert performance at Seattle Opera.
Esa-Pekka Salonen and The Los Angeles Philharmonic serve a feast for all five senses.
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.
An incoherent production of Ruslan and Lyudmila at the Hamburg State Opera may dispense with the fantastical, but Glinka‘s magic remains.
In recital for the Los Angeles Opera, tenor Ben Bliss makes the case for the next stage of his career.
Though perhaps showing its age, a storied production of La bohème nonetheless makes a welcome return to the Los Angeles Opera
The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.
I never thought an opera production could be this well done.
Pittsburgh Opera’s Fellow Travelers delivers a timely story with detail and care.
Pacific Opera Project’s high-spirited revival of Fra Diavolo is both therapy and an escape.
The women were the highlights of Washington National Opera’s militaristic Aïda
San Diego Opera’s Pagliacci puts a play within a play within a play.
A new production of Parsifal at San Francisco Opera stirred something deep inside Michael Anthonio about how music soothes the soul
Brendan Latimer sits down with Francesca Zambello and members of the cast of Washington National Opera’s production of Aïda to discuss the complicated legacy of one of Verdi’s most beloved works and the tricky business of “inventing the truth.”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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