BWW Review: WOZZECK at Des Moines Metro Opera: A Thought Provoking Work of Art
Every so often, a production comes around that leaves you pondering about the show when it is done.
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BWW Review: Union Avenue Opera Gives St. Louis a Brilliant CANDIDE
Run, don't walk, to see the brilliant CANDIDE at the Union Avenue Opera in St.
BWW Review: THE PEARL FISHERS at Santa Fe Opera
On June 29, Santa Fe Opera presented its second production of the 2019 season, a revival of Georges Bizet's exotic THE PEARL FISHERS.
BWW Review: CANDIDE at Des Moines Metro Opera: A Beautiful Kaleidoscope That Makes the Best of all Possible Shows
Some people think everything happens in life for a reason.
BWW Review: LA BOHEME Opens Santa Fe Opera's 2019 Season
On June 28, 2019, Santa Fe Opera opened its 63rd Season with Giacomo Puccini's tale of poverty-stricken young lovers in nineteenth century Paris.
BWW Review: LA BOHEME at Des Moines Metro Opera: A Breathtaking, Beautiful and Tragic Production
In 2002, I was indirectly introduced to La Boheme.
BWW Review: A DINNER ENGAGEMENT/TROUBLE IN TAHITI, Royal College Of Music
A slick delivery of operatic satires by students of the Royal College of Music challenges contemporary, outmoded conceptions about 'amateur' vs.
BWW Review: MAINLY MOZART at the Balboa Theatre
Each year Mainly Mozart brings concertmasters and principal players to San Diego from the major symphony orchestras of Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Dallas and elsewhere.
BWW Review: No Stonewalling the Message of the Bell-Campbell STONEWALL at City Opera Premiere
If there's nothing colder than yesterday's news, the Stonewall riots--that cornerstone of the gay rights movement, 50-years-old this month--should be the equivalent of a frozen Margarita.
BWW Review: CARMEN, Royal Opera House
Barrie Kosky's Carmen returns to the Royal Opera House for a second revival and still chalks up as many misses as hits.
BWW Review: BORIS GODUNOV, Royal Opera House
Illuminated by a masterful performance from Bryn Terfel, this production is a gruelling but rewarding, often stunning, revisit to the Musorgsky's original 1869 version.
BWW Review: FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES at Opera Theatre St. Louis Captures Your Heart!
Fire Shut Up in My Bones has opened at Opera Theatre St.
TOSCA, A Political Lighthouse Opens at Opera Queensland
Composed by Giacomo Puccini who is heralded as one of the greatest composers of all time, Opera Queensland's Tosca provides a powerful social-commentary on the manipulative nature of power and how love, somehow, though often tragically, manages to win.
BWW Review: Reshaping Beethoven's FIDELIO into Lang's PRISONER OF THE STATE at the Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic finished up its season with a powerful performance of a new version of the FIDELIO story by composer David Lang, which he neatly titled PRISONER OF THE STATE, summing up a key part of the story.
BWW Review: THE CORONATION OF POPPEA at Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
This baroque masterpiece is gorgeous and disturbing.
BWW Review: Forget 'Games of Thrones,' DiDonato's Got a Grip on AGRIPPINA in Barcelona, and Heading to the Met and Covent Garden
For those of us who couldn't wait to hear mezzo Joyce DiDonato in a fully staged performance of Handel's AGRIPPINA—heading to Covent Garden in September and the Met in February in different productions next season—she has given us a first-class preview at the Liceu in Barcelona.
BWW Review: A Glorious RIGOLETTO Opens at Opera Theatre St. Louis
The Opera Theatre of St.
BWW Review: DER ZWERG at THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL
Numi Opera began its inaugural season with Alexander Zemlinsky's almost forgotten Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), a piece once condemned by the Nazi Third Reich.
BWW Review: Five Years and 26 Productions Later, AS ONE Makes a Splendid Return to New York at City Opera
The spectacularly musical, touchingly dramatic, surprisingly funny and profoundly moving chamber opera, AS ONE, by Laura Kaminsky, Kimberly Reed and Mark Campbell, made its long-overdue return to New York on Thursday, in a production by Matt Gray as part of New York City Opera's spring season.
BWW Review: THE BARTERED BRIDE, Garsington Opera
We haven't seen a lot of Smetana's The Bartered Bride in the UK recently.
BWW Review: FIGARO is Brilliantly Married in St. Louis
Opera Theatre of St.
BWW Review: Who Will Survive Barcelona's PECHEURS DE PERLES at the Liceu?
George Bizet--best known, of course, for CARMEN--wrote another opera that has become increasingly (and justifiably) popular in recent years, LES PECHEURS DE PERLES, better known in the English-speaking world as THE PEARL FISHERS.
BWW Feature: New York City Opera Brings Music To Bryant Park
When I was a child, my father took me to a series of outdoor concerts at a park near our home.
BWW Review: Washington National Opera's Splendid TOSCA
It's easy to see why 'Tosca' is one of the most popular works in opera.
BWW Review: Nashville Opera's 'Gleefully Subversive' THE CRADLE WILL ROCK: Opera, Musical Theater or Both?
Now onstage through Mother's Day (Sunday, May 12) in a much anticipated and gleefully subversive production from Nashville Opera, The Cradle Will Rock remains hard to define: It could be described as a work of art whose meaning, its very raison d'etre, can be bent to suit any conceivable justificati
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Samson et Dalila Union Avenue Opera (8/14-8/22) |
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L’elisir d’amore Union Avenue Opera (7/24-8/01) |
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Fiddler on the Roof Union Avenue Opera (7/03-7/11) |