Robert Ward’s neo-romantic music in his opera The Crucible drives the disturbing plot about the Salem witch trials with deceptive…
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Nina Wise’s By This Light is produced with a delicate touch. It floats like refined incense, filling space with a clean, crisp,…
Like a minister gathering in her flock on Sunday afternoon March 15, 2026, Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello…
I have to get it off my chest, I’m no fan of Phillip Glass. That said, I love the current…
In 2024 composer-pianist Michael Stephen Brown was in residency at Yaddo, the artist retreat in Saratoga NY. He was among…
Intelligence, an opera by Jake Haggie and Gene Scheer, deals with the emotional load of two Virginia women, one white…
In eight performances from December 6 to 14 (at the Pop-Up Theater in Washington, DC) and December 19 to 21…
On November 23, 2025, Washington Concert Opera (WCO) presented a performance of Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The…
“Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said, …” and here I depart from…
In Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson opened the 2025-2026 season in Washington, DC, with a spectacular operatic adaptation of Alessandro…
If the LA Times is your principle source of cultural information you might have missed the fact LA Opera is…
Baritone Will Liverman is the opera equivalent of what theater people dub a triple threat aka someone who can do…
“Hojotoho!” At the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” Richard Wagner’s magnum opus, three full-length operas plus a…
The expression, ‘turn of the screw,’ originates in torture. A person’s thumb or finger was placed in a cylindrical metal…