BWW Review: San Francisco Opera Streams SIEGFRIED
On March 20, 2021, San Francisco Opera presented a free stream of Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried as part of Francesca Zambello’s 2017-2018 American Ring.
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BWW Review: SUOR ANGELICA Opens at Winter Opera Saint Louis
Winter Opera Saint Louis rises from its pandemic slumber with a very lovely production of one of Puccini’s more rarely performed works—Suor Angelica.
BWW Review: A CHILD OF OUR TIME: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2021 at Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
It begins with the mezzo-soprano, the wonderful Elizabeth Campbell.
BWW Review: Houston Opera's Jack Swanson Recital
On Friday evening March 12, 2021, Houston Grand Opera presented Live from The Cullen: Jack Swanson and Richard Bado in a wide-ranging recital of music by Robert Schumann, Leonard Bernstein, Roger Quilter, Kurt Weill, Franz Liszt, and Gioachino Rossini.
BWW Review: Santa Fe Opera Online Benefit Concert
On March 11, 2021, Santa Fe Opera presented an online benefit concert for its renowned apprentice programs.
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.
BWW Review: DAS RHEINGOLD at Home Computer Screens
On Saturday, March 6, 2021, San Francisco Opera did a wonderful thing.
BWW Review: Ups and Downs Mark Yoncheva's Daredevil Concert in Germany for Met Series
If you need any convincing that a “simple” recital, with lots of breaks, isn’t easier for the performer than being in a full-fledged opera, you have only to look as far as Bulgarian soprano’ Sonya Yoncheva's concert--shown live from Germany on February 27 but still available on-demand from t
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: Met Concert Shows Netrebko's Got the Technique to Do Anything She Pleases
I couldn’t help but admire Anna Netrebko’s taking on many of the pieces that comprised her concert from Vienna’s historic Spanish Riding School on February 6, which was part of the Met Stars Live in Concert.
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: Radvanovsky Gets Better and Better, Beczala Shows Off His Slavic Roots in Latest “Met Stars Live” Concert
In the latest in the Met’s live, pay-per-view concert series from varied fascinating locales around the world, Radvanovsky boldly chose Verdi’s “Pace, pace” from LA FORZA DEL DESTINO as her “warm up”--a whopper of a piece under any circumstances--while Beczala went for the composer’s �
BWW Review: SOLDIER SONGS, THE MOVIE at Home Computer Screens
Soldier Songs is a filmed opera that tells about the life and memories of a returning soldier.
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: David T. Little's Chilling Opera SOLDIER SONGS Is Reinvented for Opera Philadelphia Film
When I interviewed David T.
BWW Review: Jamie Barton Stars as the French Chef in BON APPETIT! A SWEET SOIREE
On January 8, 2021, Opera Philadelphia presented BON APPETIT! A SWEET SOIREE.
BWW Review: Happy New Year, Dear Metropolitan, Happy New Year to You
Looks can be deceiving, as the New Year’s Eve edition of the Met’s “Live in Concert” series proved in abundance.
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 Interview: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE at McCaw Hall
Available to season ticket holders from November 13–December 4, 2020 , Recorded on the McCaw Hall stage
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 Review: Damrau Goes for Broke, Calleja Plays It Safer in 'Met Stars Live in Concert' from Italy
In the latest installment of the Met Stars in Concert Series, soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Joseph Calleja took center stage in the Royal Palace of Caserta, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Italy, with the grand assistance of pianist Roberto Moresco.
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: 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: Like Fine Wine, DiDonato Keeps Getting Better, as her Unusual 'Met Stars Live in Concert' from Germany Shows Aplenty
Mezzo Joyce DiDonato set a new standard for the Met’s Live concert series (hosted by Christine Goerke) with a gorgeous recital from the Jahrhunderthalle in Germany that was broadcast live on September 12 and will be available on demand through the Met’s website, now extended through October 23.