On November 23, 2025, Washington Concert Opera (WCO) presented a performance of Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The…
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“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…
Are clowns ever truly funny? Ronald McDonald? Not funny. Bozo the Clown? Pathetic. Krusty, the cigarette-smoking, Russian-immigrant clown on the…
“Marriage of Figaro” is, for me, a daunting task to enjoy. There are moments of sublime beauty, but those are…
James Robinson’s new production of “La Bohème” for Santa Fe Opera (a co-production with Seattle Opera) is nothing earth-shattering, irreverent…
On May 23, 2025, Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center Opera House under the direction of Francesca Zambello and…
On May 2, 2025, Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center Opera House under the direction of Tomer Zvulun and…
Making a concert program is always a question of mix and match because each piece has to stand on its…
South African artist William Kentridge’s latest work, “The Great Yes, The Great No,” is a chamber opera inspired by a…