BWW Review: LA BOHEME at Des Moines Metro Opera: A Breathtaking, Beautiful and Tragic Production
In 2002, I was indirectly introduced to La Boheme.
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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
BWW Review: MN Opera Portrays Sacrifices for Love in Magnificent LA TRAVIATA
Opening on the past Saturday night at the Ordway Center, MN Opera staged a magnificent production of Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 Opera La Traviata.
BWW Review: OTELLO at the Opera de Monte-Carlo
The closing of the Monte-Carlo Opera season of 2018-2019 could not have ended better than with the new production of Verdi's Otello.
BWW Review: TRISTAN & ISOLDE at La Monnaie
Tristan and Isolde is a show that has no spectacular or theatrical value, however it does have a certain value if considered from a very closed conceptual vision perspective that has nothing to do with the wonderful richness of the story.
BWW Review: CARD GAME / THE RITE OF SPRING at OPERA WROCLAW
This play contains two pieces: Card Game and The Rite of Spring.
BWW Review: Leonard Is CARMELITES' Soft Center in Met's Brilliant Production
You'd never know that the Met's production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES is over 40 years old, except for a few giveaways.