BWW Review: DON GIOVANNI at Thomas Edmonds Opera Studio
The cast features a good many of Adelaide's favourite singers.
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BWW Review: LADY IN THE DARK a Walk on the Weill Side with MasterVoices and Victoria Clark at City Center
The line between Broadway-type musical theatre and opera becomes finer by the year--though I dare say that TOOTSIE is unlikely to be showing up at the Met any time soon.
BWW Review: BILLY BUDD, Royal Opera House
In a minimalist setting, Benjamin Britten's 20th-century reflections on Herman Melville's novel are deftly captured musically and visually.
BWW Review: UNSHAKEABLE at the Santa Fe Opera (Spring Tour)
Shakespeare and opera are an intuitive combination.
BWW Review: SIMON SINGS PORGY AND BESS at Des Moines Symphony: A Jubilant Evening of Beautiful Music
It is always a jubilant evening when I get to see the Des Moines Symphony, and their most recent concert was no different.
BWW Review: KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARDS 2019 FINAL, Wigmore Hall
Stupendous singing from a group of students battled old professionals who didn't dare reward risks.
BWW Review: SS MENDI: DANCING THE DEATH DRILL, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
Isango Ensemble's SS Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill is a sad lament for needlessly lost lives and a celebration of the cultures from which the men had sprung.
BWW Review: A MAN OF GOOD HOPE, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
Isango Ensemble bring their unique storytelling skills to show us the life of a Somali boy, alone and running away to a place that barely differs from the hell he leaves behind.
BWW Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Aratani Theatre
On Sunday April 14 Pacific Opera Project (POP) presented Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera, Madama Butterfly, in Japanese and English in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo.
BWW Review: FAUST, Royal Opera House
Bruno Ravella sparks new magic into David McVicar's production, refreshing the feel of the piece whilst ensuring its original spark is retained.
BWW Review: Fleming and Whishaw Open NY Arts Center, The Shed, with NORMA JEANE BAKER OF TROY
Helen of Troy didn't launch a thousand ships but was a put-upon sexual victim and Marilyn Monroe--born Norma Jeane Baker, of the title--was a cloud in the shape of a woman.
BWW Review: Van Hove's Take on Janacek's DIARY at BAM Is Audacious - But Not in a Good Way
“Audacious” can mean daring--and Belgian director Ivo van Hove certainly fits that description for his approaches to Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE and THE CRUCIBLE and numerous other theatre pieces.
BWW Review: Mozart's CLEMENZA DI TITO Brings Best Cast of Season to Met
While the cast for the season's revival of Mozart's LA CLEMENZA DI TITO looked good on paper, it didn't even hint at how good the singing was going to be at the Met this week.
BWW Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA'S CARMEN at the San Diego Civic Center
San Diego Opera is the 13th company since 2011 to cast mezzo-soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson in the title role of Bizet's Carmen.
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BWW Review: [Opera] Star Trek - The Next Generation from the Met National Council Finals Concert
Judging by the number of small opera companies in New York alone--see the 2019 New York Opera Fest that starts performances next month--there's no shortage of up and coming opera singers trying to make their way on the scene.
BWW Review: GALA EVENING WITH JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ, Royal Festival Hall
Juan Diego Flórez gave an orchestral recital which failed to display his superlative assets.
BWW Review: BERENICE, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
Berenice is something of a forgotten delight, its tortuous plotting more than offset by its splendid arias and delightful characters, with plenty of contemporary resonance on hand if you need it.
BWW Showstopper: Ride 'Em, Valkyries, in Part Two of the Met's RING CYCLE
There's lots to enjoy in the Met's revival of DIE WALKURE, the second part of Richard Wagner's great tetralogy, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, better known simply as Wagner's Ring Cycle, which had its first performance of the season on Monday night--all five hours of it!--under the pulsating control of Ph
BWW Review: What Retirement? Fleming Soars in Final Scene from CAPRICCIO with the Boston Symphony under Nelsons
Since my days as a pothead are long gone (LOL)—did anyone ever watch 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY without a little help from a friend?--I came to the Boston Symphony's (BSO) concert at Carnegie Hall the other night more interested in hearing the excerpts from Richard Strauss's CAPRICCIO, including Renee
BWW Review: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, Royal Opera House
Not since a memorable La traviata in 2008 have superstars Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann appeared together at the Royal Opera House.
BWW Review: MN Opera's Memorable THE FIX Composes Requiem for the American Dream
This past weekend at the Ordway Center, MN Opera unveiled their World Premiere The Fix in tribute to the All-American sport and spirt of baseball.
BWW Review: Washington National Opera's FAUST is a Devilishly Good Time
Few works have inspired such a long-lasting legacy as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust.
BWW Review: Exhilarating CARMINA BURANA Brings 'Total Theatre' to the Skylight
17 Skylight artists.
BWW Insight: Opera and Music as More than Simply a Night Out? BLUE and THE JUST Say Yes
Can opera be a medium for social commentary and change? I've been thinking about this lately--or, more accurately, yet again--since attending a preview of the new Jeanne Tesori-Tazewell Thompson opera, BLUE, which was part of the Guggenheim Museum's fascinating Works & Process series.
BWW Review: San Diego Opera's JAKE HEGGIE'S THREE DECEMBERS at The Patrick Henry Phame Theatre
Mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade starred in the San Diego Opera's staging of Three Decembers.