Mariusz Trelinski unveiled a rather gloomy, though musically satisfying, Tristan und Isolde.
Missy Mazzoli, a 36-year-old composer from Brooklyn, has created the most startling and moving new American opera in memory.
Well, that didn’t last long.
The characters get right down to work immediately with their foul deeds.
The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples is a pearl itself and this presentation proffers some of the best that company has to offer.
Ambivalent is how I feel about Cosí fan tutte.
David Lang is, per The New Yorker, a “postminimalist enfant terrible.”
You may wonder what Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci have in common.
With the performance of Dessì we move onto a different plane than the other singers.
Anna Netrebko‘s artistry is both subtle and thrilling.
Idomeneo proved enormously moving while a much more complicated Così fan Tutte went for shallow romantic hijinks stripping that work of its darkly ambiguous disturbing view of love.
dell’ arte Opera Ensemble continued its exploration of love and money by mounting Massenet’s Manon
Opera at Caramoor rallied Sunday afternoon with an admirable if erratic performance of Fidelio which was especially memorable for South African soprano Elza van den Heever’s thrilling first-ever Leonore.
The Hollywood Bowl is truly the preeminent musical venue in Los Angeles.
The unevenly-beating Heart unfortunately proved less than the sum of its deluxe parts.
This year as part of Bard’s “Puccini and His World” festival audiences may witness the resurrection of Mascagni’s distinctly odd Iris.
While composed within a European style, La Fanciulla del West is an opera that manages to present a distinctly American experience.
“The music’s fun, but doesn’t Rossini repeat himself?”
According to my taste, Die Fledermaus is an intoxicating opera
Call me old fashioned, but when I go to the opera, I go to hear beautiful singing.
Sometimes when you find the club that will have you as a member, you do not easily give up your spot.
The opera Patience and Sarah is a fantastic example of radical creativity.
Ezio was an inspired choice for Boston’s feisty Odyssey Opera to open its “When In Rome” festival.
Richard Wagner viewed dance as an essential element of art, though he used it sparingly in his operas.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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