The second production of the ENO’s new season, shown on the same week as “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” is…
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The ENO began its 2015/16 opening season with Shostakovich’s ‘tragic – satire opera’ Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934) which caused…
In an irony that surely makes the god Momus snicker, San Francisco Opera bestowed its Opera Medal for Artistic Excellence…
I must confess I have always preferred my horror on an intimate scale. That means a television set rather than…
For the opening of its 30th anniversary season, the LA Opera has turned to Hollywood for a 2 hour and…
A “dark” subject drawn from a famous book. A US premiere from an opera from the other side of the…
First there was Charles Frazier’s 1997 National Book Award-winning novel, “Cold Mountain.” a Civil War romance that sold over three…
Summer has always meant high temperatures and low expectations so I was happily surprised when I encountered the San…
Opening the 2015 Summer Season in its stunning setting at the open-air Crosby Theater in Santa Fe, Ned Canty’s production…
We like to think that chamber music is an acquired taste but what is chamber music but music played in…
“Life is but a game” is a famous proverb in Russia, which derives from Tchaikovsky’s penultimate opera. It is a…