Review: YEOMEN OF THE GUARD, Opera Holland Park
Opera Holland Park close out another acclaimed season with a rollicking Yeomen Of The Guard.
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Review: Bard's LE PROPHETE Makes You Long for 'Brevity' of Wagner's Ring Cycle
Saying that Giacomo Meyerbeer’s LE PROPHETE is long is like calling the Grand Canyon a pothole: It doesn’t begin to describe the experience, though they both sometimes have a rocky landscape.
Review: AIDA at Union Avenue Opera
Elephants? No elephants here.
Review: Teatro Nuovo Brings Bellini's CAPULETI-MONTECCHI to New York's Rose Theatre
If you want to see an opera based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” head for Gounod’s version of the piece.
Review: Rediscovering Uccelli's ANNA, Teatro Nuovo Again Proves It's Indispensable
An opera doesn’t have to be totally obscure to catch Will Crutchfield’s bel canto eye—but it couldn’t hurt.
Review: LA BOHÈME at Wolf Trap
Directed by John Caird and, for this revival, Katherine M.
Review: ACIS AND GALATEA, Opera Holland Park
Opera Holland Park’s staging of Handel’s beloved Acis and Galatea is a smashing success that finds just the right balance between musical finesse and tongue-in-cheek comedy.
Review: IL SEGRETO DI SUSANNA / PAGLIACCI, Opera Holland Park
Opera Holland Park delivers two short pieces - an ideal introduction to the form's unique capacity to bring emotional weight to any story
Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Royal Opera House
There’s a singular simplicity in Madama Butterfly that draws in audiences year after year, decade by decade like moths to a flame: a man loves and leaves a woman; she gives up everything for him.
Review: COSÌ FAN TUTTE, Royal Opera House
Has opera found its own Ivo van Hove? Jan Philipp Gloger’s radical production of Così fan tutte continues until 10 July.
Review: CARMEN at Union Avenue Opera
Saint Louis’ Union Avenue Opera is celebrating the start of it’s thirtieth year with a superb production of Bizet’s Carmen! (Thirty years—that’s twenty-nine seasons.
Review: EDGAR, Opera Holland Park
A curious opera that is beautiful and ugly all at once
Review: TOSCA, Royal Opera House
Fronted by some fresh faces, Jonathan Kent’s cinematic take on the Puccini masterwork Tosca returns for its seventeenth run at Covent Garden.
Review: LA VIE BOHEME at Polish National Opera
This is my very first time at the Polish National Opera and as we all know, first times can be overrated.
Review: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR at Artscape, Opera House
This restaging of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR is a fitting tribute to Cape Town Opera's 25 years of artistic excellence.
Review: GALILEO GALILEI at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has opened an utterly glorious production of his opera, Galileo Galilei.
Review: San Diego Opera Presents Andrea Carroll and Joshua Guerrero in Recital at Balboa Theatre
About halfway into her two-hour plus recital with tenor Joshua Guerrero, soprano Andrea Carroll gave a well-earned compliment to their accompanist Stephen Hopkins for his technique and versatility.
Review: Audience Is 'Gaga' for Soprano Asmik Grigorian in Recital at Vienna State Opera
There was a buzz in the lobby of the opera house and scalpers galore outside the doors to the ticket office for soprano Asmik Grigorian’s recent sell-out concert at the Vienna State Opera.
Review: JULIUS CAESAR at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
Handel's 'Julius Caesar' opens at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
Review: Trauma in Two Nights, as SALOME follows TURANDOT to the Analyst's Couch in Vienna
I couldn’t help but wondering whether the scheduling last week of two recent productions at the Vienna State Opera, Claus Guth’s TURANDOT and Cyril Teste’s SALOME, on subsequent nights had anything more than the availability of the stars behind it.
Review: In Freud's Vienna, Grigorian Thrills as Anguished TURANDOT under Kober
Perhaps it’s only fitting in a town that’s known for art, music and psychoanalysis (and maybe a little whipped cream on the side), that the Vienna State Opera’s production of Puccini’s TURANDOT—with the stunning soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role—features a traumatized characteriz
Review: LA BOHEME at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
You'll fall in love with Puccini yet again.
Interview: David Lefkowich of SUOR ANGELICA at Out Of The Box Opera
What did our critic think of SUOR ANGELICA at Out Of The Box Opera?
Review: TOSCA, Opera Holland Park
Opera Holland Park open the season with a faithful revival of a much loved classic
Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE at Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
Spring fever? If you’ve been made a bit dozy by these warm spring days the new production at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis will, with a bang, hoist you wide awake in all your senses.
