Lead balloon
At Wolf Trap Opera, a season-closing Tosca is weighed down by an incoherent setting during Italy’s Anni di piombo.
Silent Night
7 pieces since 2015.
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Silent Night
A live broadcast of Kevin Puts's and Mark Campbell's opera from New York
Streaming and discussion start Mar 20 at 1:00 PM
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Leontyne Price sings Christmas songs
Leontyne Price in her early prime is soaring and radiant in traditional Christmas songs.
By Gergory B. Mowery
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Nosedive
It’s not so much that I hated the Met Opera’s Grounded. I’m just not convinced that it should have been an opera.
Shining ‘Hours’
Dramaturgically, The Hours is a mixed bag: I wouldn’t discard it, but I would want to fix it. But simply as an evening of gorgeous music and singing, it’s cordon bleu.
Christmas past imperfect
Give the creators credit for producing an emotional response.
All right on the western front
Silent Night is in a sense a giant middle finger raised against the conventional wisdom that musical sophistication requires inscrutability.
Commie dearest
The Manchurian Candidate is indeed operatic: outsized characters, a doomed love story and a narrative fraught with suspense.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).