Andre Barbe’s set and costume designs for Opera Philadelphia’s current production of Puccini’s Turandot are so spectacular, that they keep…
Music
After a rollercoaster year of budget cuts and high-profile walkouts, English National Opera’s 2016-17 season opens with this much-heralded new…
JAZZ 100 was the Kimmel Center’s kick-off to their season’s jazz programming with the all-star line-up of players on the…
The superbly melodic operas of Gaetano Donizetti represent a triumph of the human spirit over extreme adversities. Long before syphilis…
Ethnic support for opera in multi-ethnic San Francisco is a subject worth scholarly research, which is certainly not being offered…
The way in to the venue is an unprepossessing entrance beside the PeckhamPlex cinema. There’s a bouncer in attendance and…
Life is complicated. More than one thing is going on whether we like it or not. This could be a…
San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program does a world of good for super-talented young singers about to launch their careers, but…
Glyndebourne has returned to the Proms for Rossini’s mad opera of disguises and shaved beards, where the smiles and double…
We all want to be loved. We all want to belong. But what do you do if your house is…
Conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra continue their stellar series of performances of the works of Dmitri Shostakovich…
The last time I saw Karita Mattila in “Jenůfa” she played the title role, a young village girl madly in…