The magnificent David Hockney Turandot production burst again onto the War Memorial stage with a new cast and conductor that recaptured its potential to make this fairytale into great opera.
Year: 2011
Lucia di Lammermoor, Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago staged Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di
Lammermoor as its second production of the current season with Susanna
Phillips taking on the role of the heroine torn between romantic love and familial pressures.
Tricks and Treats, New World Symphony
If this generation were to stake a claim to its own classical vocal music “Golden Age,” Christine Brewer presents a strong case.
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.