Y’all come on down to the levee folks. The “Show Boat” is in town and it’s a singin’, dancin’ romp….
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“Thaïs.” Does the name ring a bell? If you are not an opera aficionado, the likely answer is no, unless…
Opera Philadelphia director Nicholas Muni took a gamble last year at the Academy of Vocal Arts, setting Mozart’s “Cosi fan…
Just when you think it can’t get any better, amazingly it does. In its brief history Opera Parallèle, under the…
The musicians of the Curtis Symphony Orchestracapped off their current performance season in Verizon Hall April 13, with a concert…
For a fully satisfying combination of classical music and contemporary theater, the current LA Opera production of “Lucia di Lammermoor”…
Opera fans, fear not. The future is here. If the recent recital by Leah Crocetto and David Lomelí is any…
The Washington National Opera production of “Moby-Dick” is a crowd pleaser. Jake Heggie’s music is tonal, sometimes glancing off Puccini,…
In the opening program of its 40th anniversary season, the Verge Ensemble, the performance group of the Contemporary Music Forum,…
I’ll take mine mit schlag. The Bay Area’s venerable Lamplighters have departed from the usual Gilbert and Sullivan fare to…
In a welcome return to London after several years’ absence, acclaimed Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky opened the 2014 International Piano…
Making his Kennedy Center debut, pianist David Greilsammer is not only a talented musician but also a man with engaging…
Whoa, a credit for animation on an opera review? It must be a misprint. It is not? Really? Yup. The…
Well honey, he can cut my hair anytime. Rossini’s Figaro, probably the most famous coiffeur in the world, is delightfully…