Review: SALOME at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan - August 18, 2025
Kelly Slawson brings a dazzlingly powerful, beautiful voice to the title role. It’s an unforgettable triumph in a real tour de force....
Union Avenue Opera To Launch Inaugural One-Act Festival This October
by A.A. Cristi - August 07, 2025
Union Avenue Opera will present its inaugural One-Act Festival October 10–12, 2025, featuring dwb (driving while black) and As One. Both contemporary works explore themes of identity, injustice, and transformation, followed by audience talk-backs with artists and guests....
Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
by Steve Callahan - June 17, 2025
Opera Theatre of St. Louis draws us into a truly enchanted forest. In staging Benjamin Britten’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' they create a marvelous amalgam of strange and gorgeous music, superlative voices, and design and directorial genius. And they are unerringly true to Shakespeare’s i...
Review: DIE FLEDERMAUS at Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
by Steve Callahan - May 27, 2025
For nearly half a century the Opera Theatre of St. Louis has been bringing quite glorious opera to our fair city. It just opened its semicentennial season with a brilliant and lively production of Die Fledermaus, by Johann Strauss II. ...
Review: DIE ZAUBERFLOTE at Winter Opera
by Steve Callahan - February 28, 2025
Winter Opera rounds out its 18th season with a splendid production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). This is perhaps the most popular opera in the world, and it is an all-round challenge for any company—vocally and technically....