The setting shift to 1930s upper-crust America gives the revival of the farcical operatic comedy a modern zing and just feels ...
A high-concept stunt? A rare stroke of artistic luck? A Frankensteinian collage of 21st-century life? All of that can be said about Complications in Sue, an opera of sorts that premiered with ...
Conventional wisdom has it that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” has been a bankable opera house favorite for more ...
Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...
The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...
The premiere of Kevin Puts' newly revised work pulsates with power from such singers as Sylvia D'Eramo and Miles Mykkanen as ...
Palm Beach Opera's La bohème is straightforward but enlivened by strong performances such as Sydney Mancasola's Musetta and ...
Most cinematic musical biopics don’t give you a strong enough sense of the combination of imagination and hard work that making music requires. But Minnesota Opera is premiering a work that offers ...
A riveting two-hander, The Opera Singer peels back the diva’s glamour to reveal vulnerability and truth. Fiona Ramsay is magnetic, Owain Rhys Davies compelling. Sharp writing, elegant design, superb ...
AMHERST — Opera channels our clearest emotions: those so innate that they splash out in naive singsong, and those so deep that, when released, they can only bear to be sung. “The Onion,” with a ...
This summer’s Santa Fe Opera season, which runs through Aug. 23, skews toward standard repertoire, but there were surprises within that narrow compass. Director Melly Still gave Wagner’s “Die Walküre” ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — Before she entered to heralding horns as the wing-bedecked Guardian Angel, in fact before this pioneering opera-or-oratorio even began, mezzo-soprano Salomé Sandoval had another ...