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.
By Harry Rose
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Antony and Cleopatra was an auspicious start to San Francisco Opera’s second century, a performance that seems to improve as I continue to think about it.
I’ve been picking away yet again at the mysterious symbiosis between an opera’s words and its music.
The acclaimed Théâtre du Châtelet production of Nixon in China will, unlike the revolution, be televised.
By La Cieca
“The L.A. Phil’s new season is up, too, and the big news there is (for me anyway) the premiere of a new sacred oratorio by John Adams, entitled The Gospel According to the Other Mary. Maybe he gave it that title to distinguish it from a forthcoming work by Mark Adamo. “What? No, I meant…
By La Cieca
