Near the end of Act I of this decidedly comic British production of “Partenope,” in its company premiere at San…
Music
What better way to celebrate the birthday of Giuseppe Verdi than with his famous costume party? And so it was…
The question: To be or not to be faithful to the original setting of an opera is known to evoke…
“Ain’t it a pretty night,” sings the soprano and, whenever “Susannah” is in town, the night is more than pretty….
Bel canto means “beautiful singing” and that’s what you get in San Francisco Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “Norma.” With…
Two-thousand fourteen may be remembered at Santa Fe Opera as the year of the understudy. First there was Shelley Jackson,…
Laurent Pelly’s take on “Don Pasquale” this summer at Santa Fe Opera is tight, funny and physical. With only five…
“Carmen” and “Don Pasquale” may be alternating onstage at the opera this weekend, but that won’t stop cast members in…
The collision between grand opera and the iPhone is happening now; it’s just in places like Santa Fe that the…
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s outdoor concert series at the Mann Center (pictured above) kicked off in grand style with British conductor…
Earlier this year a film called “Twelve Years a Slave” walked away with the Best Picture award at both the…
Penny Woolcock’s visually arresting “The Pearl Fishers” returns to the Coliseum in London in a revival of the 2010 English…
As a stunning curtain, decorated with modernistic kimonos, rises on an equally striking set, all light and platforms in primary…
“La Traviata,” that quintessential tale of a Parisian courtesan-with-a-heart-of-gold-except-she-dies-of-consumption-at-the-end, is one of Verdi’s most beautiful and beloved operas. That’s the…