Relocation, relocation, relocation: Coney Island, Booklyn, is a long way from the Bay of Naples. But such is the setting for Phelim McDermott’s Cosi fan tutte; or is that Cosi…
Songs of Love & War
Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music brought around half of Monteverdi’s Eighth Book of Madrigals (Madrigali guerrieri e amorosi, 1704) to Milton Court. It was preceded by a…
A Revelatory World Premiere Recording of Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane, the First Complete Opera by a Black American
Delos partners with Opera Lafayette and OperaCréole to present the world premiere recording of the earliest complete opera by a Black American. The discovery of Edmond Dédé’s unedited manuscript of…
Blood and Gore in Hamburg: Richard Strauss’s Elektra
Do you want screams, blood-curdling cries, the unearthing of a buried axe, twisted minds messing with your own head? Richard Strauss gives it to you all in his Elektra. Those…
What Rome Wants, Rome Gets: Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto in Hamburg
In the grand scheme of things, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra weren’t the most erotic or passionate of all lovers in history, nor does their story of alignment stand out as…
Opera Lafayette Steals Hearts In Time For Valentine’s Day with Queen of Hearts
After fifteen years with a home at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Artistic Director Patrick Quigley announced before Opera Lafayette’s concert at St. Francis Hall on Thursday that the company…
Countertenor Randall Scotting Announces New Album
Divine Impresario: Nicolini on Stage Celebrating the Legendary 18th-Century Castrato Through Rarely Heard Baroque Repertoire Including Nine Works Recorded for the First Time Release Date: March 13, 2026 Signum Classics…
Christof Loy Brings Modernity and Simplicity to Schreker’s Mediaeval Folktale Der Schatzgräber
Der Schatzgräber is one of a series of operas which Schreker wrote in the first decades of the 20th century with an esoteric, folktale narrative, usually in a mediaeval setting.…
The King’s Singers: Angels and Demons at Washington National Cathedral
A venue that demands nothing less than the best singing, and with its own top-tier choir to prove it, this past weekend Washington National Cathedral played host to a smaller…
Phoenix Lands: The LPO and Gardner in Kaprálová, Szymanowski and Bartók
The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s brief Phoenix Lands series of concerts looks at music from the period after the First World War when empires had crumbled and independent nations were being…