Come sail away with me
On the heels of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film adaptation, John Danaher muses on operatic iterations of Homer’s Odyssey.
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.
In Lise Davidsen‘s new album Lise Davidsen: Verdi, the singing is thrilling but the interpretations are limp.
I am very much interested in La Scala’s upcoming opening night with Verdi’s Otello.
I’m overdue for some bel canto and WCO has historically done it well.
Parterre Box offers an (almost) comprehensive introduction to the sopranos headlining Mozart productions in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco this fall.
This season marks the third annual visit of The English Concert to American shores, this time with a production of Handel’s Alessandro.
In eclectic productions of Carmen, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Così fan tutte in Salzburg, A.J. Goldmann finds vindication for Markus Hinterhaüser at the end of the intendant’s final Festival.
George Saunders’s unforgettable novel about the greatest sorrow known to humankind—surviving the loss of a child and letting go—work as sung theater by Missy Mazzoli.
Evgeny Titov, locally infamous for his production of Salome where the titular heroine wears a paper mask for the entire performance, returns with Szymanowski’s shimmering King Roger.
Keri-Lynn Wilson and the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra channeled a want for justice into fine music-making in two appearances at David Geffen Hall.
A new English translation of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West gallops into a high school in Pacifica with as much grit and gumption as its titular frontierswoman.
There are several HDs that look interesting, but what I most looking forward to is the Manon with Nadine Sierra.
In between performances of Strauss and Mozart, Parterre Box highlights the smolderingly elegant Samantha Hankey.
I’m looking forward to the Met’s new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West.
It is only a concert performance, but no one seems to have told them that; and thank the heavens for that!
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town!
John Yohalem reviews pianist Steven Blier‘s warm, witty, and worldly autobiography, From Ear to Ear.
An amateurish production of Le siège de Corinthe, combined with heavy-handed conducting, at Pesaro weakens the defenses of one of Rossini‘s most topical operas.
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