BWW Review: In Series Revives Opera OBERON
For three decades, the In Series has been presenting intimate, small scale works - what it calls 'pocket operas' on a variety of stages in the city.
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BWW Review: Toronto is Head Over Heels for HIBLA GERZMAVA
Russia seems to be everywhere these days.
BWW Review: Two Icons Meet in OTSL's THE TRIAL
The American premiere of The Trial has opened at the Opera Theatre of St.
BWW Review: There's 'GOLD in Them Thar Hills as NY Philharmonic and Gilbert Take on Wagner's Gods
Just after hearing the wonderfully well sung, semi-staged DAS RHEINGOLD at the NY Philharmonic, under departing Music Director Alan Gilbert, I saw the current Broadway revival of THE LITTLE FOXES.
OTSL reads Steinbeck's righteous sentence with a commanding voice.
What a show! Opera Theatre of St.
BWW Review: NY OperaFest Shows COQ and BUTTERFLY as Works that Don't Go Away - They Get DayGlo-ed and Deconconstructed
There's lots going on in the world of opera in New York City, as shown by the gamut of offerings under the umbrella of the ongoing New York OperaFest, co-organized by the New York Opera Alliance and Opera America.
BWW Review: Rent in Toronto Meets Opera in Against the Grain Theatre's LA BOHÈME
You've never seen a more boho Boheme.
BWW Review: DON GIOVANNI at Metropolitan Opera NYC
Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan opera is divine.
BWW Review: Mozart's GARDENER Is On Site Opera's SECRET Weapon
It had a great score but an unmanageable book.
BWW Review: Big Nose, Big Heart, Big Performance from Roberto Alagna as Met's CYRANO
I first heard tenor Roberto Alagna in the days when he was being touted as “The 4th Tenor”—chutzpah that only a record company could come up with, placing him in the hallowed company of Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti.
BWW Review: Joyce DiDonato and Harry Bicket's English Concert Handle Handel's ARIODANTE Quite Nicely at Carnegie Hall
Harry Bicket and the English Concert returned for its just-about-annual Handel-fest at Carnegie Hall with a concert performance of the well-loved ARIODANTE by Handel, starring the even better-loved mezzo Joyce DiDonato.
BWW OperaView: A Look into the Kennedys, Ghosts and Holocaust Survivors at ALT Alumni Concert at the Morgan Library
Baritone Joseph Lattanzi and mezzo Laura Krumm didn't originate at the roles of Jack and Jackie Kennedy when JFK--the new opera by David T.
BWW Review: Canadian Opera Company's TOSCA is a Total Triumph
From the moment the orchestra plays its first note, the production is pure magic.
BWW Review: Wagner's HOLLANDER Flies Under Nezet-Seguin, with Volle and Wagner, at the Met
The audience was there to be thrilled on Tuesday, when the Met's new Music Director, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, took on Wagner's DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN) and they weren't disappointed.
BWW Review: Opera Superstar ANNA NETREBKO Dazzles in Canadian Debut
Anna Netrebko performed to an adoring sold-out audience at Toronto's Four Seasons Centre on Tuesday evening.
BWW Review: So-Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Renee Fleming in Met's ROSENKAVALIER
For a new production that was supposed to mark a farewell for soprano Renee Fleming to a role (the Marschallin) if not to staged opera performance in general, Robert Carsen's version of Richard Strauss's DER ROSENKAVALIER at the Met seemed more of a farce and less a tale of regret about passing time
BWW Review: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE at Lyric Opera Of Kansas City
continues to work after 138 years
BWW Review: The Canadian Opera Company's LOUIS RIEL - A Step in the Right Direction
Colonization is a controversial part of our heritage, and is central to the Canadian Opera Company's (COC) new production of Harry Somers' LOUIS RIEL.
BWW Review: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA AND I PAGLIACCI at Adelaide Festival Theatre
These magnificent operas have a shorter than usual run, so hurry to buy your tickets.
BWW Review: Netrebko and Mattei Spin Magic from Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN at the Met
It's getting near the end of the season at the Met in New York and it's nice to see that they're still bringing out their “A” game, with a splendidly cast run of Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN, with the wonderful Met orchestra under the sensitive baton of Robin Ticciati, music director at the Glynd
BWW Review: LA GAZZETTA at The Israeli Opera
Ever since the New Israeli Opera was created in 1985 there's usually been one guest international production in each of its seasons.
BWW Review: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI at Sarasota Opera House
Sarasota Opera House Brings Humor to the stage in Italian Girl in Algiers
BWW REVIEW: Opera Australia's Revival Of Handa On Sydney Harbour's CARMEN Is Entertaining But Not True To The Creators Vision
Bizet's CARMEN's big dramatic imagery, colourful crowd scenes and bold iconic music lends itself to a major spectacle like HANDA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR (HOSH), the jewel in Opera Australia's annual programme so it is understandable that they have opted to 'revive' the 2013 production.
BWW Review: DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES at Sarasota Opera House
Last Chance to see Dialogues des Carmelites at the Sarasota Opera House
BWW Review: An Off-Night in Seville with an Unexciting FIDELIO at the Met
Beethoven's only opera, FIDELIO, was the last of three operas this season at the Met to take place in Seville, after CARMEN and BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.