Songs of Night and Travel, Wigmore Hall

The coming of ‘Night’ brings darkness, shadows and mystery; sleep, dreams and nightmares; fancies, fantasies and passions.

The Met’s ‘La Traviata’ lean on glamour, rich in insight

 

Yevgeny Onegin in Warsaw

Mariusz Treli?ski’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece is visually fascinating but psychologically confusing

La belle au bois dormant, ThÈ‚tre de l’AthÈnÈe, Paris

 

Why bother?

 

Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Metropolitan Opera, New York

 

The Biggest Music Comeback of 2014: Vinyl Records

 

Mozart and His Operas

 

Das Liebesverbot opens the new season at Teatro Verdi in Trieste

Aron Stiehl’s production of this rare early Wagner opera cheerfully brings commedia dell’arte to La Cage aux Folles.

Fidelio, Manitoba Opera

For the first time in its 42-year history, Manitoba Opera presented Beethoven’s mighty ode to freedom, Fidelio, with an extraordinary production that resonated as loudly as tolling bells of freedom.