BWW Review: Richard Tucker Gala Anoints Jamie Barton 2015 Prize Winner at Geffen Hall Concert
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation's annual galas--celebrating each year's winner of the Tucker Award to young American singers--are known for two things.
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BWW Review: Lyric's WOZZECK Stirs the Brain in Cracking Production
Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck is not the first to swirl with immortal themes like power play, lust, betrayal, and death (far, far from it), but thanks to the circumstances of its composition - further emphasized by Sir David McVicar's new production at the Lyric Opera - it is prominent in its search to
BWW Review: The Diva Out-Divas the Diva in the Met's TOSCA
The title character in Puccini's TOSCA is the quintessential diva--a grand performer ('goddess' in Italian) who thinks the world revolves around her, particularly when it comers to her lover, painter Mario Cavaradossi.
BWW Review: Live from New York - It's the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition Winners
The recital at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on October 24 by the winners of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition was like an “amuse bouche”--a gift from the chef at the start of a meal at a fine French restaurant to tickle your tongue.
BWW Review: Electrifying ELEKTRA from Goerke, Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall
One thing you should know about Richard Strauss's ELEKTRA: When it's done right, the audience works itself into a fever pitch and—after the orchestra has played the final notes—it stands and screams its head off.
BWW Review: Let's Hear It for the Boys, in TANNHAUSER at the Met
Almost 40 years ago, on short notice, the great tenor Jon Vickers (who died this summer at 90) caused a scandal when he pulled out of the premiere of the Met's still-current production of Wagner's 'Tannhauser' because he considered the opera anti-Christian.
BWW Review: Despite Game Cast, PIRATES with MasterVoices Abandons Ship at New York City Center
Bravo to the Collegiate Chorale for taking things up a notch--changing its name to MasterVoices and taking on an ambitious season that opened with a semi-staged production of Gilbert & Sullivan's THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE at New York City Center, with a game cast including some top Broadway performers
BWW Review: MASTERVOICE'S PIRATES OF PENZANCE at City Center
Deftly sung by a chorus of 100+ Broadway and Opera Veterans
BWW Review: H.M.S. PINAFORE at Hillcrest Theater For The Arts
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta, 'H.
BWW Review: Sondra Radvanovsky Thrills in Met ANNA BOLENA
The Met came late to the trio of Donizetti operas about British queens, when it finally mounted ANNA BOLENA mounted for Anna Netrebko in 2011.
BWW Review: DOUBLE BILL: BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE AND LA CHANSON DE FORTUNIO Brings Together Two Comic Operas About Love And Lust
The two hilarious comic opera 's presented were Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne and Offenbach's La Chanson de Fortunio.
BWW Review: Yoncheva as Desdemona Shines in New Verdi OTELLO at the Met
When Verdi and Boito were writing their operatic version of Shakespeare's OTHELLO, they were competing with the already-successful (though less faithful) version written by Rossini and thought about calling their opera IAGO.
BWW Review: Pacific Opera And Sydney Youth Orchestra Present THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN At Sydney Grammar School
Leoš Jana?ek's THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN is reinterpreted by Michael Campbell (Director) in this new collaboration between Pacific Opera, Sydney Youth Orchestra and Sydney Grammar School.
BWW Review: Met Audience Goes Wild for Hvorostovsky at Season TROVATORE Premiere
Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky hadn't even opened his mouth, as the Count di Luna, when the audience went wild at the season's premiere of Verdi's IL TROVATORE.
BWW Review: Skylight's Elegant TOSCA Elevates the Art of Opera
n a new season celebrating creative women, Skylight Music Opera opens with an elegant tribute to composer Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.
BWW Review: Washington National Opera's CARMEN Satisfies
Washington National Opera began what may be one of its more artistically challenging seasons Saturday with the most crowd-pleasing production.
BWW Review: René Barbera Strikes Another Harmonious Chord for SDO
Anticipation has kept Facebook and Twitter buzzing
BWW Review: TOSCA at the Aotea Centre
NBR New Zealand Opera has been going from strength to strength over recent years, and this latest production of Tosca is no exception.
BWW Review: Barton, Appleby and Goerke - No Greenhorns at the Greene Space and WQXR Concert
When I heard mezzo Jamie Barton at the Metropolitan Opera's recital in Central Park in the summer of 2014, she would have knocked my socks off--if I hadn't been wearing sandals.
BWW Review: Woodminster's AIDA Passionate and Powerful - Now Thru Sept. 13 Only
AIDA at Woodminster.
BWW Review: VERDI'S REQUIEM Is at Its Best in Adelaide This Week
One cannot imagine what the first audience felt when Verdi broke the mould of the requiem.
BWW Review: Union Avenue Opera's GOTTERDAMMERUNG Brings Home the Gold!
They've done it! Little Union Avenue Opera and its leader Scott Schoonover bring home the gold! They have triumphed over that colossus of all operatic colossi-Wagner's Ring Cycle! They entered the battle wielding the magic sword of talent and determination and, just like Siegfried, they have conquer
BWW Review: FAUST Is A Spectacular Work, Not Seen Here For 33 Years
State Opera of South Australia is presenting one of the grandest of grand operas, Charles Gounod's Faust.
BWW Review: GODSPEED the Rock Opera Brings Scripture to Life Onstage at El Portal
What is truly amazing - a miracle really - is the entire production began rehearsals (including learning the music as well as staging) on August 13 and opened on August 21.
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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) |