BWW Reviews: OTSL's DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES Grandly Rewards Your Patience
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BWW Reviews: OTSL's '27' Opens to Ovations
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BWW Reviews: Opera Philadelphia's A COFFIN IN EGYPT -- Von Stade is Wonderful, But It's Otherwise Mummified
Von Stade out of retirement is cause for celebration, but there's no other purpose to the vehicle for it
BWW Reviews: Skylark Opera Showcases Two Celebrated 20th Century American Composers in its Summer Festival
For their annual summer festival, Skylark Opera is presenting the Leonard Bernstein classic operetta Candide and the musical revue Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill.
BWW Reviews: Washington National Opera's Emotionally Touching AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
I love theater that challenges me as an audience member and An American Soldier does just that.
BWW Reviews: Soprano Mariella Devia is 'Queen for a Day' at Opera Orchestra's ROBERTO DEVEREUX
In New York, Donizetti's ROBERTO DEVEREUX will forever be associated with Beverly Sills' powerful portrayal of Elizabeth I, and her stern photo glaring out from the cover of Time Magazine.
BWW Reviews: Il Divo's Masterful MUSICAL AFFAIR Garners Enthusiastic Ovations in Providence
Il Divo's A MUSICAL AFFAIR lives up to its promise and brings impressed and appreciative audience members enthusiastically to their feet.
BWW Reviews: OTSL's ELIXIR OF LOVE is intoxicating!
Well, it worked on me! 'The Elixir of Love' opened last night at the Opera Theatre of St.
BWW Reviews: Gotham Chamber Opera's US Premiere of THE RAVEN Cries 'Nevermore'
When New York's Gotham Chamber Opera--in collaboration with the Gerald Lynch Theatre at John Jay College--presented Toshio Hosokawa's THE RAVEN in its US premiere last week, as part of the NY Philharmonic Biennial, the composer could not have wished for a production that made a better case for it.
BWW Reviews: Hub Opera's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Features an Evening of Clever Characters and Beautiful Music
The Hagerstown Hub Opera production of one of Mozart's most famous operas, The Marriage of Figaro, is an enjoyable way to spend an evening, providing audiences with gorgeous music and vocals and very clever caricatures of the well known opera buffa stereotypes.
BWW Reviews: OTSL's MAGIC FLUTE Delights St. Louis
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BWW Reviews: Deal or No Deal, Dutch National Opera's FAUST Is Damned
Even with its visions of damnation and redemption, Gounod's FAUST, with libretto by Barbier and Carre, is pretty tame stuff.
ST. LOUIS OPERA FLOURISHES THIS SUMMER
Seven productions tempt opera-lovers in a bright summer season.
BWW Reviews: The Foibles of DON GIOVANNI at Opera Philadelphia
Nicholas Muni gives a stylish yet peculiar take on an age-old story
BWW Reviews: Opera Colorado's Subdued, Stifled, and Subpar Version of the Operatic Classic, CARMEN
Sometimes less is more, but in this case more is more.
BWW Reviews: From Kaufmann and Florez to Beczala and Camarena, It's the Year of the Tenor
“The party's over,” wrote Betty Comden & Adolph Green in BELLS ARE RINGING.
BWW Reviews: LA TRAVIATA Is a Heartrending Tale of Doomed Love, Duty, and Honour
With only three more performances of this operatic masterwork, it is essential to waste no time in booking tickets.
BWW Reviews: WNO's Eye-Popping MAGIC FLUTE Casts a Musical Spell
A winner from start to finish, THE MAGIC FLUTE features Mozart's score, a delightful new translation, superb casting, and the stunning design work of Jun Kaneko.
BWW Reviews: ALO Introduced Austin to Up-And-Coming Opera Stars with ELIXIR OF LOVE
Poor, plain, easily ignored Nemorino.
BWW Reviews: The Tenor's a Cinderella, the Mezzo's Charming and the Met's CENERENTOLA is a Dream
When the Met's production of LA CENERENTOLA, Rossini's version of the Cinderella story.
BWW Reviews: Soprano Olga Peretyatko Debuts in I PURITANI at the Met, But, Oh, That High F from Tenor Lawrence Brownlee
One of the thrilling things about live opera performance is that it's like watching a tightrope walker, particularly when it's one with as many high notes and such florid writing as in Bellini's I PURITANI.
BWW Reviews: Houston Grand Opera's CARMEN is Sultry and Opulent
Closing their 2013-14 Season, HGO is presenting Georges Bizet's acclaimed CARMEN.
BWW Reviews: One Small Step for MACBETH, One Huge Leap for Opera in Africa
In MACBETH, Brett Bailey gives us Shakespeare by way of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, filtered through Third World Bunfight's trademark post-colonialist, avant-garde manifesto.
BWW Reviews: Kristine Opolais' BUTTERFLY Spreads Its Glorious Wings at the Met
By this time in the Met's season, audiences can be a little “been there, done that”--but not when it came to Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais, singing the title role in Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY for the first time in New York.
BWW Reviews: Soprano Karita Mattila Shimmers in Strauss's FOUR LAST SONGS at Carnegie Hall
Of all the music that Richard Strauss wrote during his long career—and he'd composed almost 60 songs and more than 40 piano works by the time he was 18—perhaps none are more gorgeous and moving than his FOUR LAST SONGS (VIER LETZTE LIEDER).