BWW Review: Passions Blaze in Union Avenue's TOSCA
The Union Avenue Opera just keeps presenting wonders! Their current production, Puccini's 'Tosca', is among the very best of their best-musically, vocally and in production values.
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BWW Review: An Evening with the Divine Mr. M(ozart) at Lincoln Center
The opening program for this year's Mostly Mozart Festival—the 50th--at David Geffen Hall may not have offered any new insights into the mind of the genius composer or uncovered any long-lost masterpiece not heard in 200 years.
BWW REVIEW: Melodrama And Marvellous Music Unfold In SIMON BOCCANEGRA
Opera Australia's interpretation of Giuseppe Verdi's tale of love, jealousy, politics and altered identities, SIMON BOCCONEGRA returns to the Sydney Opera House.
BWW Review: Bard SummerScape Tackles Mascagni's Little-Known IRIS
It probably would have been worth the trip to Bard SummerScape's production of Pietro Mascagni's IRIS—last heard at the Met in 1931--simply to make the acquaintance of soprano Talise Trevigne.
BWW REVIEW: Sir David McVicar' COSI FAN TUTTE Draws Out The Darkness Beneath Mozart's Beautiful Music
McVicar's beautiful vision is paired with the wonderful voices of five of Australia's and one of America's finest singers and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra to expose the disturbing attitudes that unfortunately still prevail.
BWW Review: Mesmerizing, Tantalizing PARADISE at Lincoln Center Festival
“The word and genre 'opera' is much broader and more inclusive in the 21st century than it was in the past,” says Huang Ruo, composer/co-librettist of PARADISE INTERRUPTED, his mesmerizing, tantalizing opera that was one of the opening selections of this year's Lincoln Center Festival.
BWW Reviews: LA TRAVIATA at the Isaac Theatre Royal
Giuseppe Verdi's operatic masterpiece La Traviata opened triumphantly at the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch last night to a capacity audience.
BWW Review: Union Avenue Opera turns THE MIKADO 'Topsey Turvey'
A simply splendid production of 'The Mikado' has opened at the Union Avenue Opera in St.
BWW Review: SONGS FROM BEHIND THE FRONT Recalls The Horrors Of World War One
Songs From Behind the Front was presented by State Opera as part of the Flanders Fields Poppy Trail commemorations.
BWW Review: St. Petersburg Opera Company's Impressive, Briskly-Paced SOUTH PACIFIC
Incredibly strong singing voices and an astounding orchestra guided by conductor Mark Sforzini make for a top-flight production.
BWW Review: ROMEO & JULIET Ennobles at MetOpera
Sir Kenneth MacMillan silenced the Bard to the wordless storytelling of corporeal movement.
BWW Review: Down the River with Catan's FLORENCIA at New York City Opera
If you're a fan of Puccini-esque music and the “magic realism” of the great Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Daniel Catan's FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS may be for you.
BWW Review: THE GONDOLIERS - Comic Opera At Its Finest
BWW Review: THE GONDOLIERS - Comic Opera At Its Finest Celebrating its 40th year, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin brings us a world class production of THE GONDOLIERS.
BWW Review: PATIENCE & SARAH Shines Light on Women in Love in 19th-Century New England
PATIENCE & SARAH—at least in the production of this chamber opera seen this past week at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village, as part of the New York Opera Fest and 18 years after its premiere at Lincoln Center Festival—is a beautiful but somewhat lopsided affair.
BWW Review: The Met's SummerStage Recital Has a Date with an 'Angel'
The weather, the stars and “the stars” aligned the other night in Central Park, when the Metropolitan Opera performed its annual recital at SummerStage.
BWW Review: THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES Is A Bizarre, Juicy, Fairytale Feast Of Color And Comedy
Opera Australia's interpretation of Sergei Prokofief's THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES returns to delight and entrance Sydney audiences.
BWW Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE at ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre
New Zealand Opera's new production of Mozart's final opera The Magic Flute is an absolute delight.
BWW Review: On Site Opera's FIGARO a Charming Diversion that's Not Mozart
“Bride's side or groom's? I'm Count Almaviva,” said the elegant actor as we entered what, we are told, is the Count's summer palace.
BWW Review: The Colours Of Cuba Breathe New Life Into Opera Classic CARMEN
Recognisable melodies of Bizet's CARMEN and iconic images of Havana are blended together to retell this passionate story of infatuation, independence, strength and seduction for a modern audience.
BWW Review: LoftOpera's LE COMTE ORY - The Most Fun You Can Have in a (Not) Opera House
Children of All Ages! In the center ring was a death-defying feat of legerdemain guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, a tap to your toe and an audience to its feet.
BWW Review: Opera Theatre of St. Louis Offers a Powerful World Premiere of SHALIMAR THE CLOWN
Salman Rushdie's tale of love and vengeance becomes a powerful opera in this commissioned work at Opera Theatre of St.
BWW Review: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA & PAGLIACCI, Birmingham Hippodrome, June 2016
To celebrate their 70th anniversary, Welsh National Opera returns to the Birmingham Hippodrome to perform Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci; the same operas the company performed for their debut performance.
BWW Review: ARIADNE ON NAXOS Balances Wondrously Between Classic Beauty and Parody
'ARIADNE ON NAXOS' balances wondrously between classic beauty and parody.
BWW Opera Review: What's Old is New Again in CARMEN from Bad-Boy Bieito for US Debut at San Francisco Opera
For a director known as opera's bad boy, Calixto Bieito turned to something awfully familiar in CARMEN for his US debut.
BWW Opera Review: Not Wild for Barry's Earnest Take on Wilde's EARNEST at NY PHIL BIENNIAL
“There is no sense in which [the play] THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST needs to be an opera.
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Fiddler on the Roof Union Avenue Opera (7/03-7/11) |
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Samson et Dalila Union Avenue Opera (8/14-8/22) |
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L’elisir d’amore Union Avenue Opera (7/24-8/01) |