BWW Review: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI at Sarasota Opera House
Sarasota Opera House Brings Humor to the stage in Italian Girl in Algiers
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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.
BWW Reviews: When It Comes to Desdemona, LoftOpera Shows the Rossini OTELLO Outdoes Verdi
I must admit that I entered LoftOpera's performance of Rossini's take on OTELLO with some trepidation.
BWW Review: THE LOVE OF THREE KINGS at Sarasota Opera
Sarasota Opera The Love of Three Kings
BWW Opera Showstopper: With One Aria, Elza van den Heever Steals the Met's IDOMENEO
No one can accuse the Met of skimping when it put together its current revival of Mozart's opera seria IDOMENEO.
BWW Review: CARMEN: A Triumphant Crown to a Decade of Impressive Opera
This production completes the company's tenth season and it's a crowning glory.
BWW Review: Washington National Opera's CHAMPION is a Winner
Who among us hasn't fought for acceptance and inner peace? That alone makes Champion a winner.
BWW Review: Chemistry Galore from Yoncheva and Fabiano in Met's TRAVIATA
Don't ever underestimate the importance of chemistry when it comes to pulling off an opera performance--and there was animal magnetism galore in the Met's revival of its Willy Decker production of Verdi's LA TRAVIATA.
BWW Review: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2017: SAUL at Adelaide Festival Theatre
A sensational retelling of the story of Saul and David, the first two kings of the Israelites.
Review Roundup: Opera Lafayette's LEONORE, OU L'AMOUR CONJUGAL
Opera Layfeyette presented LEONORE, OU L'AMOUR CONJUGAL in NYC at the Gerald W.
BWW Review: Washington National Opera Presents Bold and Haunting DEAD MAN WALKING at the Kennedy Center
Rooted in the moral conflict between society's thirst for justice and Christianity's tenet of forgiveness, the modern American opera DEAD MAN WALKING is an apt selection for the Washington National Opera this season.
BWW REVIEW: The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir's Staged Concert Of HANDEL'S MESSIAH Is A Feast For The Senses
HANDEL'S MESSIAH, one of the most iconic Baroque works is finally given the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's exquisitely emotive and expressive treatment under the baton of Artistic Director and Conductor Paul Dyer.
BWW Review: What's Really Old is New Again, with POPPEA from Concerto Italiano at Carnegie Hall
Monteverdi's L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA--THE CORONATION OF POPPEA--is considered the oldest opera in existence, but the version performed by Concerto Italiano at Carnegie Hall the other night, as part of the La Serenissima Festival (celebrating all things Venetian), showed it is also one of the fresh
BWW Review: A Passionate Vittorio Grigolo in the Off-Kilter World of Massenet's WERTHER at the Met
Tenor Vittorio Grigolo always seems most at home on stage when he's living close to the edge--portraying a character who's losing control (or about to) of his emotions.
BWW Review: Juilliard Opera's AGRIPPINA Shows How to Handel Silliness and Politics
A funny thing happened on the way to Emperor Claudius' death scene: He didn't die.
BWW Review: How to Do Beethoven and Mahler, Compliments of NY Philharmonic under Honeck and Soloist Barnatan
Audiences at the New York Philharmonic have been known to come for the soloists and then slip out for the symphony.
BWW Review: THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT Marries Tradition and Contemporary Opera
Austin Opera's second show this season, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT welcomes Marie (performed by Rachele Gilmore) and 1,500 adopted fathers known as the 21st Regiment.
BWW REVIEW: Verdi's Tragic Love Story Of The Fallen Woman, LA TRAVIATA Returns To Sydney Opera House
Elijah Moshinsky's (Director) staging of Giuseppe Verdi's LA TRAVIATA returns to Sydney Opera House, this time under the eye of Revival Director Hugh Halliday.
BWW Review: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Met's New RUSALKA
Anyone arriving at a performance of the Met's new RUSALKA, in Mary Zimmerman's production, thinking that there's going to be an evening of Disney-type fun from this distant cousin of THE LITTLE MERMAID, will be in for a big disappointment.
BWW Opera Review: THE GREAT COMET Walks the Broadway-Opera Tightrope Brilliantly
During the opening sequence of NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812--the extravagant, whirlwind of a show now playing at Broadway's Imperial (how fitting) Theatre--I couldn't help thinking how the Met could learn a thing or two from a show like this.
BWW Review: THE MAGIC MARKSMAN Slightly Off Target
THE MAGIC MARKSMAN (DER FREISHÜTZ) at George Mason University and present by Virginia Opera certainly offered a spectacle.
BWW Review: NOLI ME TANGERE, The Opera Goes For A Grand Staging
60 years after its original run in Manila, 'Noli Me Tangere, the Opera' is back for a limited engagement at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Main Hall.
BWW Review: RIGOLETTO at Metropolitan Opera
Michael Mayer's revised production of Rigoletto in Las Vegas, complete with Vegas dancers, mobsters and a topless pole dancer is GREAT ENTERTAINMENT
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