BWW Review: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI at Santa Fe Opera
Daniela Mack is Isabella, an Italian pilot, who makes an emergency landing in Algiers and is captured by its ruler, the Bey.
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BWW Review: The WEST SIDE of the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY
Yes, it's still the Leonard Bernstein centennial and what better way to celebrate than at the Glimmerglass Festival with WEST SIDE STORY.
BWW Review: A Weekend in the Country at Glimmerglass Festival, Part One, SILENT NIGHT
None of the three pieces that I saw at the Glimmerglass Festival near Cooperstown, NY, last weekend was exactly what it seemed to be: Is CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN a fairy story or a cautionary tale? Is WEST SIDE STORY simply in a class of its own? Does SILENT NIGHT find that war is hell—or that hell is
BWW Review: Call It Mishmash or MASS, Mostly Mozart Celebrates Bernstein Centennial
This week, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival added its two-cents to the Leonard Bernstein centennial festivities, with the first of two performances of Bernstein's MASS: A THEATRE PIECE FOR SINGERS, PLAYS AND DANCERS, in an environmental production by Elkhanah Pulitzer.
BWW Review: H.M.S. Pinafore is a Bright, Merry Musical Romp!
The Union Avenue Opera opens its 24th season with a splendid production of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.
BWW Review: St. Petersburg Opera Presents Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN at the Palladium
Fantastic barbershop quartet as well as the dance ensemble stand out in this production of the iconic musical.
BWW Review: MACBETH at STAATSOPER UNTER DEN LINDEN - Superstars Netrebko and Domingo miscast in a glittering new production of Verdi's MACBETH
Currently, the world of opera is sorely lacking superstar talent.
BWW Review: In Series Ends Season with THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS
'Holocaust Opera' is probably not the most inviting description for the season ending offering for the In Series.
BWW Review: ORFEO & EURIDICE at OTSL Dazzles
Orpheus could charm the very stones with his lyre and his singing.
BWW Review: OKLAHOMA!, West Horsley Place
Oh, what a beautiful evening in West Horsley! Grange Park Opera open their 2018 summer festival season with Rogers and Hammerstein's vintage musical (the first of its kind in 1943), set in the farming heartlands of America.
BWW Review: REGINA at Opera Theater Of St. Louis
For certain xenophobic East Coast opera lovers, the words 'St.
BWW Review: DINNER Now Being Served at NYU's Opera Lab and American Opera Projects
What's left to say about Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party"--that milestone of 20th century feminist art now on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum--that hasn't already been said? Actually, quite a bit, according to the students from the Opera Lab of NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Pr
BWW Review: Same Time, Next BROKEBACK, Premiering at City Opera
At the opening of New York City Opera's US premiere production of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, with a libretto by Annie Proulx based on her short story, it was the score by Charles Wuorinen that knocked me out, with its intricacies, aural moodiness and exciting orchestration.
BWW Review: Opera Theatre St. Louis Gives Us An Utterly Flawless REGINA
Opera Theatre St.
BWW Review: Works Old and New Show THEA MUSGRAVE Still the Life of the Party
Now into her 10th decade, the venerable composer Thea Musgrave is still full-steam ahead.
BWW Review: The Washington National Opera's WNO GALA Pays Tribute to Leonard Bernstein
As both a celebration of the Washington National Opera and a culmination of the John F.
BWW Review: TRAVIATA Triumphs at Opera Theatre of St. Louis
Of all the composers in the world Giuseppe Verdi is by far the most popular.
BWW Review: THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY PERFORMS MAHLER'S 1ST SYMPHONY at The Church Of The Good Shepard
BWW Review: THE PARK AVENUE CHAMBER SYMPHONY PERFORMS MAHLER'S 1ST SYMPHONY at The Church Of The Good Shepard
BWW Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA'S ONE AMAZING NIGHT at The Balboa Theater
The San Diego Opera's last concert this season was billed as 'One Amazing Night.
BWW Review: It May Not Be Celestial but AIDA Reigns in Brooklyn at Feisty Regina Opera
While New York waits for Netrebko's house debut as Aida to the Met next year, we always have…Brooklyn? If you hurry, you can catch next weekend's matinees--it's a local company that knows its audience and schedules accordingly--at the feisty Regina Opera Company, which is featuring a surprisingly
BWW Review: The Bantam of the Opera Strikes Again!
For several seasons I've searched for a term to describe Gateway Opera.
BWW Review: THE PEARL FISHERS at Adelaide Festival Theatre
State Opera have a winning production in The Pearl Fishers.
BWW Review: Oratorio Society Gives SANCTUARY to the Underground Railroad at Carnegie Hall
The world premiere performance of SANCTUARY ROAD (subtitled “An Oratorio Based on the Writings of William Still, a Conductor for the Underground Railroad”), by composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell, performed by the Oratorio Society of New York under Kent Tritle, burst forth from th
BWW Review: Sondra Radvanovsky Reigns Supreme in the COC's ANNA BOLENA
The title role is one of the most challenging soprano roles in the repertoire.
BWW Review: No Babying the Audience at BAMBINO, the Opera for Toddlers, at the Met
No one in the audience was on Facebook or Twitter during Lliam Paterson's opera BAMBINO at the Met's List Hall--a rare occurrence for the company these days--on Friday May 4.