Review: Teatro Nuovo Brings Bellini's CAPULETI-MONTECCHI to New York's Rose Theatre
If you want to see an opera based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” head for Gounod’s version of the piece.
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An opera doesn’t have to be totally obscure to catch Will Crutchfield’s bel canto eye—but it couldn’t hurt.
Review: Audience Is 'Gaga' for Soprano Asmik Grigorian in Recital at Vienna State Opera
There was a buzz in the lobby of the opera house and scalpers galore outside the doors to the ticket office for soprano Asmik Grigorian’s recent sell-out concert at the Vienna State Opera.
Review: Trauma in Two Nights, as SALOME follows TURANDOT to the Analyst's Couch in Vienna
I couldn’t help but wondering whether the scheduling last week of two recent productions at the Vienna State Opera, Claus Guth’s TURANDOT and Cyril Teste’s SALOME, on subsequent nights had anything more than the availability of the stars behind it.
Review: In Freud's Vienna, Grigorian Thrills as Anguished TURANDOT under Kober
Perhaps it’s only fitting in a town that’s known for art, music and psychoanalysis (and maybe a little whipped cream on the side), that the Vienna State Opera’s production of Puccini’s TURANDOT—with the stunning soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role—features a traumatized characteriz
Review: What the Hades – the Met Brings Back Morris's Lovely ORFEO with Costanzo
Considering all the productions in the Met’s repertoire that have been conceived (or, perhaps more justly, concocted) by directors from other media who don’t seem to understand or like opera, Mark Morris is a gem.
Review: AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Is a Horror Story of Brutality and Abuse
“Why did I enlist? Why did I go to war?” are but two of the questions that Private Danny Chen asks himself in the powerful docu-opera, AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang.
Review: Exquisite THE HOURS by Puts Triumphs Again at the Met under Watanabe
When I first heard Kevin Puts’s gorgeous, melodic score for THE HOURS back in 2022, I was blown away, thinking it was almost too good to be true.
SUFFS—Suffragists, Fighting for Voting Rights Regardless of Sex—Brings History to Broadway
“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,” according to Disney’s “Mary Poppins.
Review: Dizzying Night at the Met with Grigorian's Splendiferous BUTTERFLY in House Debut
Those of us who keep an eye on the comings and goings of singers at major opera houses around the world, have known that Friday’s debutant, Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian, was going to be one to watch.
Interview: How to Make a Cad—BUTTERFLY's Pinkerton—Appealing, According to Jonathan Tetelman
It’s a big season at the Met for tenor Jonathan Tetelman—born in Chile, raised in New Jersey—and he’s taking every advantage of it.
Review: John Adams's EL NINO Finally Arrives at the Met After World Travels
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Review: Separated at Birth? Boulanger's VILLE MORTE and Debussy's PELLEAS Fall Similarly on the Ear
It’s easy to understand why Neal Goren, founder and artistic director of Catapult Opera, was immediately taken with LA VILLE MORTE.
Review: Lighter Side of the Fall of the Weimar Republic, in Death of Classical's TIERGARTEN?
I wouldn’t say that Andrew Ousley’s TIERGARTEN cabaret draws parallels between Weimar Germany—from World War I, leading up to the Nazification of the country and finally World War II—and the current political climate in the US.
Review: Blanchard-Lemmons' FIRE SHUT UP Makes Another Splash at the Met
It was tough separating the opera from the event when FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES opened the first post-Covid pandemic season at the Met.
BWW Preview: Berkshire Opera's RIGOLETTO for a #MeToo Era
“In Rigoletto we're dealing with abuse of women, male power, rape, murder.
BWW Interview: Julian Grant's NEFARIOUS New Opera with Mark Campbell's Libretto Opens at Boston Lyric Opera, 11/8
It's Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1828 and the city's world-renowned anatomy schools are suffering from a cadaver shortage.
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Though the classical music season is still young, it'll be tough for anything that lies ahead to compete with Friday night's performance at Carnegie Hall by Martha Argerich, who seemed to be having the time of her life, while showing total skill and control.
BWW Preview: All Things Considered, I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia, at the O17 Opera Festival
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BWW Review: How to Do Beethoven and Mahler, Compliments of NY Philharmonic under Honeck and Soloist Barnatan
Audiences at the New York Philharmonic have been known to come for the soloists and then slip out for the symphony.
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