If this generation were to stake a claim to its own classical vocal music “Golden Age,” Christine Brewer presents a strong case.
Month: November 2011
Eugene Onegin, ENO
Deborah Warner’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is an evocative and lyrical depiction of elegiac passion.
Dark Sisters, New York
They’re no longer just door-to-door missionaries with a science fiction theology and strange underwear! What with a presidential candidacy and a hit Broadway musical, the Mormons are having their breakout season in New York.
Carmen in San Francisco
DÈja vu. Well, sort of. Last time around (2006) there was a Carmen and then another who canceled leaving San Francisco Opera in the lurch.
Jonas Kaufmann as Werther and Cavaradossi
For some years now the opera world has reveled in the appearance of many fine lyric tenors, with Juan Diego Florez leading the charge.
Adriana Lecouvreur, Carnegie Hall
What could be more appropriate for the Samhain season than a return from
near-death?
Tales of Hoffmann, Chicago
For its first production of the new season, Jacques Offenbach’s
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Lyric Opera of Chicago assembled a
distinguished roster of soloists with the Lyric Opera Orchestra under the direction of Emmanuel Villaume.
David Alden directs Cavalli’s Ercole Amante for Amsterdam, 2009
The operas of a composer born before the settlement of Jamestown face dim prospects of getting staged at the larger American houses.