Les Arts Florissants present two ravishing programs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The world premiere of Dolores and Charpentier‘s David and Jonathan bring the heat to West Edge Opera’s 2025 Festival.
Two short theatrical works and one sacred piece from the beguiling oeuvre of the guy who didn’t write Louise
Trove Thursday celebrates Pride with a Bible-based homoerotic sort-of opera not by the guy who wrote “Depuis le jour”: Charpentier’s David et Jonathas with Mark Padmore, Laurent Naouri and Jaël Azzaretti led by Emmanuelle Haïm.
French early music group Ensemble Correspondances offered two of the year’s very best concerts.
Can a surfeit of pleasure become—in the end—unsatisfying?
Marc-Antoine Charpentier came along at the wrong time for a composer of French opera.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s opera David et Jonathas, written for a celebration at a Jesuit school in 1688, premiered together with a Latin verse drama, Saul, now lost.
You have only until Sunday to catch the most heart-breaking moments seen on New York City operatic stages this season.
Cecilia Bartoli and Joyce DiDonato are not the only ladies who have recorded recitals this year featuring music from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Every year New York City opera-lovers eagerly anticipate the autumn because it means that summer is finally over and we can get back to serious opera-going, and this September promises “The Battle of the A’s.”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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