Up an Octavia Up an Octavia

The operatic offerings of Boston Early Music Festival — Keiser‘s Octavia and Telemann‘s Pimpinone and Ino — are delectable discoveries

By June 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The head on the cake plate The head on the cake plate

John Yohalem reports on Catapult Opera’s satiating San Giovanni Battista

By June 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The Bible meets Edward Albee The Bible meets Edward Albee

The Met doesn’t have the monopoly on Salome this spring — look no further than Catapult Opera’s San Giovanni Battista which opens in Brooklyn next month.

By May 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Can’t get you out of my head Can’t get you out of my head

Today the good guy finally gets his chance with San Giovanni Battista by Alessandro Stradella featuring Christophe Dumaux as John the Baptist.

By May 16, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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Auburn notice

My grandfather warned me once: “Beware redheaded women. They’re both good and evil, depending on the second.” On Patricia Petibon’s new album Rosso the soprano combines arrestingly beautiful singing and aggressively amorous characterizations with wildly dramatic artistic choices so easily and effectively, that she in a way lends an air of truth to the old…

By August 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM
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