Opera Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 52

BWW Reviews: Viva VERDI Comes Alive in SF Opera's New ATTILA
by Harmony Wheeler - June 22, 2012

One of Giuseppe Verdi's lesser-performed operas, Attila lacks the hummable songs that have brought his better-known operas into popular culture. His complicated characters are ever-present, however, and his grand melodies support those characters with a commanding presence, especially when a large c...

BWW Reviews: New MAGIC FLUTE Full of Color and Wonder at SF Opera
by Harmony Wheeler - June 15, 2012

Polka dots, neon and pastel colors, and innovative use of projector technology comprise a cheerful and vivid new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, which premiered Wednesday night at the San Francisco Opera Memorial House. Although it sometimes lacks the dramatics needed to keep a strong moment...

BWW Reviews: EIF's LOVE IN A LIBRARY Guerrilla Opera Focuses on the Music
by James T Harding - June 11, 2012

A simple love story between a librarian and a young English teacher is the excuse for a twenty minute jukebox opera, inflicted on unsuspecting Edinburgh library goers all this week. The show will be performed in various Edinburgh City Libraries and the Scottish Poetry Library until Saturday the 16th...

BWW Reviews: DARK SISTERS Might Surprise You
by Molly Hagan - November 21, 2011

DARK SISTERS, the new opera about a polygamist family with music by Nico Muhly, and libretto by Stephen Karam, takes a cue from the recent trial of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs. Mainstream Mormonism and its polygamist roots have become popular topics of late, visible everywhere from the Republican prima...

BWW Reviews: Nashville Opera's RIGOLETTO
by Jeffrey Ellis - April 12, 2010

Rife with corruption and intrigue, teeming with forbidden love and deception, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto is among the most often performed operas in America - and Nashville Opera closes out its 2009-2010 season with a beautifully designed and sumptuously mounted production of the Italian masterpiece...