The Academy of Vocal Arts’ mounts Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” every few years and it always seems to show them at…
Music
I don’t know why, but every time I hear the four mighty chords that begin Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” tears come…
To the many interpretations of “The Magic Flute,” San Francisco Opera has added one with the distinction of looking like…
Sometimes you gotta take the good with the bad, and San Francisco Opera’s new production of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”…
The second production of the ENO’s new season, shown on the same week as “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” is…
The ENO began its 2015/16 opening season with Shostakovich’s ‘tragic – satire opera’ Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934) which caused…
In an irony that surely makes the god Momus snicker, San Francisco Opera bestowed its Opera Medal for Artistic Excellence…
I must confess I have always preferred my horror on an intimate scale. That means a television set rather than…
For the opening of its 30th anniversary season, the LA Opera has turned to Hollywood for a 2 hour and…
A “dark” subject drawn from a famous book. A US premiere from an opera from the other side of the…
First there was Charles Frazier’s 1997 National Book Award-winning novel, “Cold Mountain.” a Civil War romance that sold over three…
Summer has always meant high temperatures and low expectations so I was happily surprised when I encountered the San…