By Leos Janácek Houston Grand Opera Wortham Center Houston, TX May 4-12, 2007 Produced by Chas Rader-Shieber Lisa Saffer: Vixen…
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Following the bleak Don Giovanni in the latter-day career of the prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Così Fan Tutte is, in…
Appomattox Opera by Philip Glass Libretto by Christopher Hampton San Francisco Opera October 5-24 http://www.sfopera.com/opera.asp?o=252 It is generally conceded that…
Metropolitan Opera, New York City May 2-12, 2007 Directed and choreographed by Mark Morris Sets: Allen Moyer Costumes: Isaac Mizrahi…
by Richard Strauss Opera Ireland / Solvakian National Opera Bratislava and Czech National Opera Prague The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Conductor:…
Das Rheingold Opera in one act by Richard Wagner Directed by Francesca Zambello Conducted by Donald Runnicles San Francisco Opera…
My dear late best friend Danny Cariaga, classical music critic extraordinaire of the Los Angeles Times, once observed that people…
Opera by composer William Bolcom Libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller Washington National Opera November 5, 8, 11, 14,…
by Jake Heggie Dublin: Gaiety Theatre November 18-24, 2007 Conductor: Bruno Ferrandis Director: Thomas de Mallet Burgess Sister Helen Prejean:…
The Rake’s Progress By Igor Stravinsky Libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman Directed by Robert Lepage Conducted by Donald…
By Benjamin Britten Houston Grand Opera Production Stage Manager: Neil Armfield Conductor: Patrick Summers Daniel Belcher: Billy Budd Andrew Kennedy:…
Bluebeard’s Castle and L’Enfant et les Sortileges One Act Operas by Bela Bartok and Maurice Ravel In Hungarian and French…
by Jake Heggie Houston Grand Opera March, 2008 Frederica von Stade as Madeline, Keith Phares s Charlie, Kristin Clayton as…