Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra Reveals Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2025
The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra has announced its 2025-2026 season offering a journey that drifts through shadow and light, reverence and revelry, and tradition and innovation.
Virginia Opera & Richmond Symphony Partner On LOVING V. VIRGINIA
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 24, 2025
Virginia Opera, in collaboration with the Richmond Symphony, will present the world premiere of Loving v. Virginia, composed by Damien Geter on a libretto by Jessica Murphy Moo, with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves as Stage Director.
Review: AIDA at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan - Jul 29, 2024
Elephants? No elephants here. Just grand, grand opera!
(Tenor Limmie Pulliam will astonish you!)
The evening is filled with moments of glory.
Review: DAS RHEINGOLD at McCaw Hall
by Erica Miner - Aug 13, 2023
The outstanding cast and provocative production, merged with Wagner’s indisputably monumental music and drama, made this Rheingold a de rigueur happening
Washington Concert Opera Presents Verdi's Masterpiece NABUCCO
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 13, 2023
On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. at Lisner Auditorium, Washington Concert Opera (WCO) will present one of Verdi's first works, Nabucco, an opera that catapulted his career and is considered a masterpiece as well as the first patriotic opera of its time.
Review: FALSTAFF at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan - Aug 1, 2022
Verdi's Falstaff is another glittering gem in the train of Union Avenue Opera. I'm not a big fan of 're-purposing' classic plays. Poor Shakespeare! He's been subjected to such vandalism over the years with modern 'concept' versions of his works. No, I do not want to go to see a trendy lesbian-Hamlet-on-Mars!
Review: EUGENE ONEGIN at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan - Jul 11, 2022
Glorious voices fill Tchaikovsky's masterpiece with beauty. After the tribulations of the pandemic the Union Avenue Opera returns to its lovely home. Here, in the nave of the Union Avenue Christian Church, the company presents first-class opera up-close and intimate. They open their 28th season with a superb production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
BWW Review: Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' I DREAM A WORLD
by Steve Callahan - Jun 17, 2021
Juneteenth celebrations in Saint Louis got off to an early start on Tuesday, June 15. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, in collaboration with the Missouri Historical Society, presented a gorgeous cornucopia of music—and a bit of slam poetry—in an early-evening performance on the steps of our History Museum in Forest Park. It was called 'I Dream a World'.
BWW Review: New Works, Bold Voices at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
by Steve Callahan - Jun 15, 2021
The glorious Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has opened its New Works, Bold Voices Lab. This is its continuation of a program exploring where the world of opera might go in days ahead. This season’s offerings are three quite different short pieces, together lasting some hour and a quarter.