I figure, turn-about is fair play. LAOpera is, once again, mounting the startling production of Komische Opera’s Magic Flute….
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Metropolitan Opera maestro James Levine cancelled his appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra due to ill health. San Francisco Orchestra conductor…
“Champion” packs a punch. If Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s opera is not a complete knockout, it may be due…
Simon McBurney has returned to the English National Opera to direct the first revival of his production of Mozart’s last…
In mid-December, St John’s Smith Square was alight with their 30th annual Christmas Festival. The final performances of the festival…
Last week St John’s Smith Square was alight by their 30th annual Christmas Festival. The final performances of the festival…
An opera based on a Poe short story had its American premiere at the War Memorial Opera House recently. With…
Back in 2003, Naomi Matsumoto came across an edited score at the Marciana Library in Venice. It was a…
“La Forza del Destino,” (The Force of Destiny) is hard to stage. Verdi’s marvellous music, including a grandiose overture, is…
The Academy of Vocal Arts’ mounts Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” every few years and it always seems to show them at…
I don’t know why, but every time I hear the four mighty chords that begin Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” tears come…
To the many interpretations of “The Magic Flute,” San Francisco Opera has added one with the distinction of looking like…
Sometimes you gotta take the good with the bad, and San Francisco Opera’s new production of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”…