BWW Review: BOULDER OPERA THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Home Computer Screens
On Sunday afternoon March 7, 2021, The Boulder Opera Company of Colorado presented Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro to audiences in the theater and online.
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BWW Review: DAS RHEINGOLD at Home Computer Screens
On Saturday, March 6, 2021, San Francisco Opera did a wonderful thing.
BWW Review: LA Opera's DIGITAL SHORT DEATH Now Streaming
Los Angeles Opera’s digital short film, Death, is Nadia Hallgren’s nine-minute creative take on Paul Laurence Dunbar’s turn-of-the 20th century poem, entitled Death.
BWW Review: SOME ENCHANTED EVENING from Pittsburgh Festival Opera
On February 14, 2021, Valentine’s Day, Pittsburgh Festival Opera presented seven singers in a romantic concert entitled Some Enchanted Evening.
BWW Review: COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Presents a LIVE Socially Distant Concert for Valentine's Day
Love was in the air as Columbus was finally reunited for the first time with a live (albeit socially-distant-mask-wearing) symphony orchestra performance featuring an intimate Valentine's Day concert with celebrated vocalists Jessica Hendy and Scott Coulter, accompanist John Boswell, and conductor S
BWW Review: P R I S M at Los Angeles Opera
On January 28, 2021, Los Angeles Opera streamed a newly filmed version of Roxie Perkins and Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s m.
BWW Review: SOLDIER SONGS, THE MOVIE
Soldier Songs is a filmed opera that tells about the life and memories of a returning soldier.
BWW Review: Arizona Opera Presents STUDIO SPOTLIGHT CONCERT
On Saturday evening, December 19, 2020, Arizona Opera premiered its third Studio Spotlight Series Concert online at no charge.
BWW Review: AMICI E RIVALI at CD Review
the two tenors take on the roles of sparring tenors who clearly get along musically and, by all accounts, personally as well
BWW Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA'S LA BOHEME at Pechanga Arena Parking Lot
A connoisseur's bravos replaced by honkin' horns and flashin' headlights? Puccini's La bohème staged in a parking lot? Such is opera performance in an age of COVID-19.
BWW CD Review: AMERICAN COMPOSERS AT PLAY
Releasing a CD of vocal works entirely made up of 20th and 21st century composers is a brave and bold effort on his part.
BWW Review: LOTS OF STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL WITH MEMBERS OF ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA at The Rooftop Parking Area At Morris Museum
Under the benign gaze of Saturn, Jupiter, and a bright half -moon, a small ensemble of instrumentalists from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performed their final concert of three under the stars at the Morris Museum in Morristown NJ on Saturday, October 24.
BWW Review: ORPHEUS AT LOTS OF STRINGS at Morris Museum, Morristown NJ
2020 has not exactly been a stellar year for…very much at all.
BWW Review: A TRIBUTE TO LEON FLEISHER
The word legendary can be used loosely, but as Brian Ganz demonstrates in a tribute concert to his long-time teacher and world-famous pianist Leon Fleisher, in this case not only is the description deserving but can be applied in many different spheres.
BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET Virtually With Grand Rapids Symphony and Grand Rapids Ballet.
Grand Rapids Symphony presents Romeo and Juliet, the first of three new shows in the 2020 Season.
BWW Review: LUCAS AND IRINA MEACHEM RECITAL
Baritone Lucas Meachem and his wife, pianist Irina Meachem, sang an aria-filled recital on to open the Merola Opera Program Recital Series September 27, 2020.
BWW Review: PAAVO JÄRVI CONDUCTS THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, Royal Albert Hall
Accentuating agony across three erasa?? worth of works, Paavo Järvi conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra unsettlingly in both good and bad ways.
BWW Review: RUSSELL THOMAS LIVING ROOM RECITAL
On Monday, August 10, 2020, I listened to tenor Russell Thomas and collaborative pianist Kyung-mi Kima??s a?oeLiving Room Recitala?? for Los Angeles Opera.
BWW Review: HERSHEY FELDER'S BEETHOVEN LIVE STREAM at Florence, Italy
BWW Review: HERSHEY FELDER'S BEETHOVEN LIVE STREAM at Florence, Italy
BWW Review: “SONGS OF SUMMER” WITH SHELLY TRAVERSE at McCaw Hall
Seattle Opera's innovative 'Songs of Summer' recital series has been bringing some of the company's most valued singers to an electronic stage
BWW Review: RUSALKA at Des Moines Metro Opera and Iowa PBS: A Journey to the Depths of the Sea and Back.
Last week Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) and Iowa Public Broadcasting Service started the 2020 Virtual Opera season with a stunning airing of 'Manon.
BWW Review: Des Moines' MANON Is a Welcome Journey Taken From Your Own Couch
Opera companies worldwide have found themselves canceling their seasons, including Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO).
BWW Review: ASPECT CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS A MAGICAL EVENING at Bohemian National Hall
With the world in growing turmoil, what we need is Music, Tales and Magic, which is just what the ASPECT Chamber Music presented on March 11, 2020.
BWW Review: THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY HONORS BRITISH COMPOSERS At The Jacobs Music Center
British guest conductor Bramwell Tovey led the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in authoritative performances of William Walton's Crown Imperial (Coronation March), Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto and the Enigma Variations of Edward Elgar.
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Grand Choral Opening: War & Requiem Church of the Ascension (10/29-10/29) |
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Carnegie Hall Presents: Santiago Cañón-Valencia and Victor Santiago Asuncion Carnegie Hall (11/10-11/10) |
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New York Festival of Song: First-Name Basis New York Festival of Song: First-Name Basis (10/20-10/20) |
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American Composers Orchestra: New Virtuoso: Low End Theory at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (3/18-3/18) |
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NYFOS Next: This Now Naked Life The Theater at 150 W 17th Street (11/15-11/15) |
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American Composers Orchestra: Hello, America: We Gather Here at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (10/27-10/27) |
