Year: 2013

The star of the show was the agile Robert Orth as Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. A fine operatic baritone, Orth’s patter was machine gun fast, crisp, and completely understandable.

Venerable San Francisco Opera kicked off its fall season with a wholly pleasing revival of a landmark production, complemented by an engrossing world premiere.

Carmen Lite: Singing shines in Syracuse Opera’s pocket-sized The Tragedy of Carmen

No matter how or where Carmen is produced, or by whom directed, costumed and performed, its promise of free wheeling sex and exciting rhythmic music, has made it one of the most popular operas in the world.

What do you get if you cross the sultry folk melodies of Greece, Spain and Italy with the formal repetitions of Baroque instrumental structures, and add a dash of the shady timbres and rhythmic litheness of jazz?

‘All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.’ The sentiments of the closing lines of Gerald Manley Hopkins’ sonnet, ‘No worst, there is none.

Britten’s War Requiem is one of the defining artistic works of
the twentieth century. Consummate artwork, religious ritual and prayer,
ceremonial commemoration, ideological political statement, public expression of
mourning, and private avowal of faith,

James Conway’s production of Monteverdi’s final masterpiece, L’incoronazione di Poppea was