Setting it ablaze
Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.
Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.
Haley Whitney shines as the mother of us all in The Marigny Opera Ballet‘s stirring staging of Scarlatti’s Cain.
Opera San José opened its season with a new production of Don Giovanni that embraced the opera’s challenges with youthful abandon, even as it was sometimes felled by them.
The mezzo international anthem is so oversung that we forget how hard it is to sing.
Finally, finally, a change to see Massenet‘s Hérodiade, albeit in concert from, though I long for a day when the Met or the Lyric Opera of Chicago would give us a staged performance.
The Royal Opera House‘s Don Giovanni comes without an instruction manual — but features a fine lothario in Gordon Bintner.
With San Francisco Opera’s orchestra on strike and bass Andrew Potter retiring at 43, Miles Greenberg sees opera’s ethics and economics of impracticality at a breaking point
I guess it’s no secret here that I LOVE contemporary operas.
There may be frozen giant erections and psychedelic projections galore — but there’s also a surprising degree of emotion in Kirill Serebrennikov‘s latest theatrical experiment in Berlin.
Parterre Box draws your attention to another Macbeth taking the stage this month, the triple-threat baritone Luca Micheletti.
Countertenor Carlo Vistoli shows he’s got the goods across the repertoire at the Park Avenue Armory.
Berlin’s 26-27 season opens with a bang.
On the heels of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film adaptation, John Danaher muses on operatic iterations of Homer’s Odyssey.
Opera Philadelphia’s production of Mitridate, re di Ponto proves more puerile than perhaps its 14 year-old composer intended.
I am very much interested in La Scala’s upcoming opening night with Verdi’s Otello.
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