The Wigmore Hall’s 125th Anniversary Festival is shaping up well: in one day, the venue offered Jordi Savall at lunchtime and Asmik Grigorian in the evening, both (as far as…
Month: May 2026
Milan on the Euphrates: Verdi’s Nabucodonosor at Teatro alla Scala
Riccardo Chailly’s tenure as Music Director of Teatro alla Scala is ending. Myung-Whun Chung will take over later this year. Over the past decade, Chailly has conducted one Verdi opera…
Rattle Returns to the LSO with Gerhard, Richard Strauss and Mahler
Vocal qualities matter enormously. Not just when it comes to the process of casting in the opera house, but when radically different items are programmed together in concert. I have…
Vive la Révolution à Wilmington!
Opera Delaware has served up such a bloody good, full-throated rendition of Giordano and Illica’s Andrea Chénier, that the cheering audience could not have been more boisterous in its rapturous…
A Pop-Up Potion: L’elisir d’amore Leaps from the Page at the NNTT
The New National Theatre Tokyo recently presented the fifth revival of Cesare Lievi’s popular 2010 production of L’elisir d’amore. At the 16 May matinee, the foyer buzzed with an audience…
Exceptional Student Performances of Britten’s Rape of Lucretia from The Royal Academy of Music
“It’s not exactly a work you enjoy” were words I overheard during the interval of this hugely impressive production of Britten’s first chamber opera given by Royal Academy of Music…
A Musically Triumphant New The Barber of Seville in Hamburg
How far are you prepared to go if you really, really want something? Would you stop at nothing, save perhaps murder? When it’s a question of naked political power, all…
Traditional Virtues: Andrea Chénier at OperaDelaware
During the French Revolution, a secret police chief arrests a politically radical artist in order to extort sex from his glamorous girlfriend. Puccini’s Tosca? Nope, Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier. Puccini’s…
Washington Performing Arts Announces 2026/27 Season
60th anniversary year continues with the organization presenting the world’s finest artists on D.C.-area stages, forging connections across genres, generations, and communities Highlights include: • A Washington Performing…
Choral Arts Society of Washington Announces 2026–2027 Season: “Embrace the Unknown”
Season Features a German Embassy Partnership, a Germany Tour, Beloved Holiday Concerts, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Choral Arts Society of Washington (Choral Arts) today announced its…