Review: HANSEL AND GRETEL, Royal Opera House
Antony McDonald's production simply oozes glamour and matches perfectly the opera’s quintessentially Romantic music.
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Review: THE LION, THE UNICORN, AND ME at Kennedy Center
Ten years ago, Washington National Opera (WNO) premiered a family opera about the events leading up to the birth of Jesus in a manger.
Review: ODYSSEY: A HEROIC PANTOMIME, Jermyn Street Theatre
Five opera singers are holding out for a hero
Review: San Diego Opera Performs THE MIRACLE OF REMEMBERING at San Diego Civic Center
What did our critic think of San Diego Opera Performs THE MIRACLE OF REMEMBERING at San Diego Civic Center?
Review: Met's First TANNHAUSER of the Season Interrupted by Demonstrators
All that was missing were shouts of “food fight!” to turn last night’s performance of Richard Wagner’s TANNHAUSER—the first of the Met’s season—into a version of National Lampoon’s Night at the Opera, as climate activists interrupted the house debut of the great baritone Christian Ge
Review: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA / PAGLIACCI, Royal Opera House
Sensational staging and great music sung with such passion, but are changing mores transforming how we see the sad clown and his wicked revenge?
Review: SIR BRYN TERFEL at Kennedy Center
Sometimes it doesn't take much to make a reviewer happy and have an excellent musical experience.
Review: Magical Realism of Daniel Catan's FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS Spellbinds Audience in Met Debut
Just as the Met’s debut of Mexican composer Daniel Catan’s FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS (FLORENCE IN THE AMAZON) began the other day, a member of the audience yelled out “Viva la ópera en español!” (“Long live opera in Spanish!”).
Review: DON GIOVANNI at Winter Opera
The wonderful Winter Opera has opened a quite splendid production of what has been called “the opera of all operas”—Mozart’s amazing Don Giovanni.
Review: Edward Hopper Inspires Musto-Campbell LATER THE SAME EVENING at Juilliard Opera
It’s amazing how much emotion John Musto and Mark Campbell have been able to cram in the mere 75 minutes of LATER THE SAME EVENING, a one act opera, which has been on view this past week at Juilliard Opera at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, on West 65 Street, down the block from Lincoln Center’s Al
Review: JEPHTHA, Royal Opera House
300 years have passed since Jephtha, Handel’s Greek tragedy-infused oratorio, was heard at Covent Garden.
Review: Comedy Tonight! MasterVoices Does THE FROGS, Or Why Isn't Sondheim at the Met?
MasterVoices, under Ted Sperling, found THE FROGS irresistible—and the result was a hit, or, as Shakespeare wrote in “Hamlet”: “A hit, a very palpable hit.
Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Kennedy Center
The oft-told tale of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet which has been beloved throughout the ages and been interpreted and showcased in so many films, stage productions and even a ballet ---has been mounted by the Washington National Opera in an odd sort of manner.
Review: X Marks the Spot at Met Premiere of 'X: Life and Times of Malcolm X'
It’s taken a long time for X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X—the rediscovered and revised ‘80s work by Anthony Davis, Thulani Davis and Christopher Davis, in Robert O’Hara’s production and conducted by Kazem Abdullah--to cross the plaza from what was the old City Opera at New York State T
Review: 7 DEATHS OF MARIA CALLAS, London Coliseum
Celebrated performance artist Marina Abramović is very much in town: as well as a huge exhibition of her works at the Royal Academy, this “opera project” in London’s largest West End theatre sees her explore the life, works and final moments of the diva’s diva Maria Cal
Review: Plenty of High Notes at Unusually Low-Key Richard Tucker Awards Gala
An historic recording of golden age tenor Richard Tucker singing “Sound an Alarm” from Handel’s JUDAS MACCABEUS” set the tone for the Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s Gala concert at Carnegie Hall.
Review: GRAMMY® GREATS UNITE – LATONIA MOORE AND J'NAI BRIDGES IN CONCERT at Balboa Theatre
What did our critic think of GRAMMY® GREATS UNITE – LATONIA MOORE AND J’NAI BRIDGES IN CONCERT at Balboa Theatre?
Review: GROUNDED at Kennedy Center
The beautiful blue skies that Jess, an F-16 fighter pilot in the U.
Review: RIP VAN WINKLE, Hoxton Hall
London company Gothic Opera returns to Hoxton Hall for their fifth outing and their take on French composer Robert Planquette's Rip Van Winkle.
Review: LA TRAVIATA at Artscape Is a Visual and Audial Masterpiece
LA TRAVIATA needs little introduction.
Review: LA TRAVIATA, London Coliseum
Much shorter than Richard Eyre’s three-hour plus version for the ROH, Peter Konwitschny’s La Traviata perhaps should be renamed La Trav or L’ Abbreviata.
Review: Met Revival of BALLO IN MASCHERA Opens in Alden Production
One of the troubles of being a major institution like the Met is that when they produce a new production of a major opera--and Verdi’s UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, which opened in revival the other night, certainly falls into that category--it’s an expensive undertaking.
Review: CARMEN Opens Edmonton Opera's 60th Season
One of the world’s most beloved operas returns to Edmonton’s Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium! Carmen takes the spotlight on October 21 and 24.
Review: ALCINA at McCaw Hall
What did our critic think of ALCINA It’s worth going to see for the glorious music and courageous, proficient singing
Review: RIGOLETTO, Royal Opera House
Mears’s production demonstrates a keen feel for drama and a genuinely brilliant reading of Verdi’s opera; when juxtaposed with a musical interpretation as potent as this, it’s a production not likely to be forgotten.
