NATIONAL OPERA CENTER, SCORCA HALL

by Courtney Castelino - May 11, 2026

What did our critic think of WENWEN DU AND IAN BOSTRIDGE IN RECITAL at Carlton Dominion-Chalmers Centre?...

by Joanna Barouch - May 09, 2026

Leon Botstein has a special aptitude for finding under-appreciated and rarely (if ever) performed works for orchestra. While it must be understood that not everything committed to paper by any composer is a jewel of perfection....

by Peter Danish - May 02, 2026

What did our critic think of 'CHANGED FOR GOOD' THE NEW YORK POPS 43RD ANNIVERSARY CONCERT at Carnegie Hall?...

by Natalia Jarczynska - April 22, 2026

What can you do with a 90-year-old piece about a man madly in love, slowly slipping into a dream he has no desire to wake up from? Quite a lot, it turns out....

by Alexandre DIACONU - April 20, 2026

Some evenings remind you why opera exists. LUCREZIA BORGIA at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège did exactly that, in a space that feels fully aligned with what opera stands for, vocal mastery, ritual, and a visual world built to carry myth sized emotion....

by Ron Bierman - April 03, 2026

Carmen is the world’s third most performed opera. Its tale of the doomed love affair between an innocent young soldier and a beguiling young woman unconstrained by conventional beliefs was seen in more than 6,000 productions on five continents last year. This performance was in the opera’s origi...

by Peter Danish - March 16, 2026

On March 10 at Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra brought Gustav Mahler’s towering Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection,” to New York under the direction of its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin....

by Drew Eberhard - March 02, 2026

The Quintessential voice, the one and only Audra McDonald. Captivating the room and singing selections from Broadway’s Great American Songbook, totaling 15 incredible selections in a swift 90-minute presentation. ...

by Steve Callahan - March 02, 2026

Opera is widely considered to be a seasonal flower.  Around the world opera festivals show their shoots in early spring, they blossom in the summer, and they stretch their glory into the fall.  In St. Louis, though, we find one of the few fine opera companies willing to brave the icy blasts of win...

by Louise Penn - February 19, 2026

Opening the London Handel Fetsival, this flawless presentation of Saul was a celebration of Handel that set the tone of the performances to follow. The acoustics in the hall were exceptional, with clear enunciation throughout and a sense of occasion....