Mark Allan
Grand Tier Grab Bag
Today’s Grand Tier Grab Bag features a snippet from Carolina López Moreno and Antonio Pappano 's recent Rondine in London.
Marco Borggreve
Grand Tier Grab Bag
Today’s Grand Tier Grab Bag offers Raehann Bryce-Davis in Marina’s aria from a broadcast of Boris conducted by Vasily Petrenko .
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Feature
Carmen Paddock looks at contemporary opera's prestige literary turn and what it takes for operas adopted from novels to last.
Recording Reviews
The miracle workers at Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera have published another premiere recording of a work that I’ve long heard of but never heard: Dominick Argento ’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe .
Cory Weaver
West Side Story opened LA Opera's 40th anniversary season with fury and flair
A scene from Mason Bates's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay." Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was, somehow, a fun night at the opera—just not one that felt specifically operatic.
Michael Fabiano as Calàf and Angela Meade as Turandot in Puccini's "Turandot." Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera
When Angela Meade and Michael Fabiano first sang Lucia together as students at AVA few would have predicted that they would go on to sing Turandot 16 years later.
Steven Pisano
Opera Philadelphia’s Il viaggio a Reims in a nutshell: Hyperactive, confusing, and distracting from (and sometimes for) the singers? Yes. Imaginative, wildly entertaining, and musically rewarding? Absolutely.
From an early age I knew I should have been French.
We will have two Bellinis in new productions, with the best possible casts that can be assembled.
Paola Kudacki
Messiah remains ubiquitous, but several of Handel’s other superb English oratorios will be given enticing performances during the 2025-26 season.
Next season I am looking forward to performances of Andrea Chénier at the Met.
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Atlanta Opera's Götterdämmerung (Stage Direction Tomer Zvulun with set design Erhard Rom ).
