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BWW Review: THE MAN WHO WOKE UP - American Premiere of Short Opera by British Composer Robin Haigh
American Premiere of Short Opera by British Composer Robin Haigh
BWW Reviews: Opera Theatre of St. Louis delights with 'La boheme'
OTSL has opened a delicious 'La boheme'.
BWW Review: AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE's 2016 Spring Gala Offered a Delightful Sampling of the Season's Repertoire
On the evening of May 16th 2016 at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, the beloved troupe that was recognized as 'America's National Ballet Company' in 2006 by the United States Congress proved once again that the American Ballet Theatre is indeed a treasure.
BWW Review: THE DA PONTE PROJECT: MAKING MOZART Brings Operatic History Superbly Alive
The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi Fan Tutte, were the result of the collaboration Mozart and da Ponte.
BWW Opera Review: A Captivating BEAST from the Center for Contemporary Opera
Under the umbrella of the New York Opera Fest, The Center for Contemporary Opera presented an hour's worth of excerpts from THE WILD BEAST OF THE BUNGALOW, an episodic opera still in development by composer Rachel J.
BWW Opera Review: Vertical Player Repertory Disinters Pacini's MALVINA DI SCOZIA
As part of the New York Opera Fest, Brooklyn's scrappy Vertical Player Repertory ventured into Manhattan's Christ and St.
BWW Review: CLOUDSTREET Is A Major Australian Success Story
State Opera has pulled out all the stops for this opera, which has been five years in the making.
BWW Review: THE MIKADO Gets A New Look With Rich Characterisations
Co-Opera and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of South Australia have joined forces to perform The Mikado.
BWW Opera Review: PARK AND BARK - The Next Generation, from NYU and AOP
“Park and bark” is a term usually used derogatively when speaking about opera--a kind of old-style singing that involves standing still and bursting forth in song, with little or no acting skills involved.
BWW Opera Review: Few Sparks from Opera Orchestra in Donizetti's Formulaic PARISINA D'ESTE
Those of us with long enough memories can recall some exciting nights at Opera Orchestra of New York's concerts at Carnegie Hall, with Eve Queler at the helm.
BWW Review: Stunning TWILIGHT OF THE GODS at the Washington National Opera
Director Francesca Zambello's Gotterdammerung is truly awesome-in both the original and contemporary senses of the word.
BWW Review: WNO's Next Chapter in THE RING: SIEGFRIED
In the third installment of the Washington National Opera's mammoth staging of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung at the Kennedy Center, a new Brunnhilde awakens, Fafner's dragon turns out to be more of a monster truck, and the titular star of the work, Siegfried, turns out to be much more of
BWW Opera Review: Oh, To Be Abducted from This SERAGLIO at the Met
I wonder whether James Levine imagined that Mozart's DIE ENFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO) would be his swan song as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera.
BWW Review: Superb Sub in WNO's THE VALKYRIE
Ten years of planning and $10 million in production costs couldn't prevent the Washington National Opera from pleasing all the gods in its ambitious staging of all four operas in Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung.
BWW Review: THE RHINEGOLD Magically Opens WNO's The Ring Cycle
In 2006, then Washington National Opera Artistic Director Placido Domingo announced that the Opera would take on their first complete cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
BWW Review: It's a Pleasure Getting to Know Lyric Opera's THE KING AND I
Under the direction of Lee Blakeley at Lyric Opera (who originally staged this production for Paris's Theatre du Chatelet in 2014), Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical THE KING AND I is heightened to the lavish and beautiful spectacle it deserves.
BWW Opera Review: A WIFE for All Seasons from City Opera at Harlem Stage
An absurdist mash-up of the lives of great Ashcan artist Edward Hopper and the infamous gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, HOPPER'S WIFE--by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie--had its belated New York premiere last weekend by New York City Opera, in a clever production by Andreas Mit
BWW Opera Review: MASTERVOICES Strikes a Masterful Chord with Dido and Aeneas
A heavenly aura flooded through the regal New York City Center this past Thursday night at the MasterVoices premiere of Henry Purcell & Nahum Tate's baroque opera, Dido and Aeneas.
BWW Opera Review: Met's New ELEKTRA Has the Cast and Conductor--But Where's the Catharsis?
The Met's new production of Richard Strauss's ELEKTRA is something to behold, with Vincent Huguet recreating the original by the late Patrice Chereau from France's Aix-en-Provence Festival.
BWW Review: CARMEN at Lyric Opera Of Kansas City
Lyric Opera brings great singers together for memorable production of Bizet's Carmen
BWW Review: I AM ANNE HUTCHINSON/I AM HARVEY MILK Premieres at Strathmore
I am enormously thrilled that Strathmore took this one on.
BWW Opera Review: SF vs. NY, Tilson Thomas vs. Gilbert, Mezzo vs. Baritone, But Audiences Take the LIED
Earth Day has come and gone in 2016, but symphonic orchestra audiences in New York have lots to remember from this year's celebration, with performances of Mahler's DAS LIED VON DER ERDE (SONG OF THE EARTH).
BWW Review: LES FETES VENITIENNES
A review of Robert Carsen's direction of 'Les Fetes Venitiennes,' as performed by Les Arts Florissants and L'Opera Comique at BAM.
BWW Opera Review: Christie's Arts Florissants Brings Venice to BAM with LES FETES VENETIENNES
Andre Campra's 1710 opera-ballet, LES FETES VENETIENNES, with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants made its New York debut at BAM last week in an utterly charming production by Robert Carsen.
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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) |