Not only are Ingmar Bergman’s films very ‘operatic’ in their poetic but visceral way of dealing with matters of life and death, opera as an art form had a place…
Month: December 2024
Flamboyant Rake’s Progress from Opéra national de Paris
The stars are truly aligned for this latest revival of Olivier Py’s Rake’s Progress, a glitzy production first unveiled at the Palais Garnier in 2008. Underpinned by a strong international…
The BBCSO explore the relationship with God and Man in works by Haydn, Moussa and Strauss
On the face of it music criticism has often seemed to me a very unimaginative profession. Take this BBCSO concert, for example, the programming of which has largely appeared to…
Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Lyric Opera of Chicago
The production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, directed by Barbara Gaines and first featured during the 2015-16 season, has returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago. While audiences…