The weather was auspicious for Wexford Festival Opera’s first-night firework display — mild, clear and calm. But, as the rainbow rockets exploded over the River Slaney, even bigger bangs were being made down at the quayside.
Author: Gary Hoffman
The Met’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ a happy marriage of ensemble singing and acting
The cast of supporting roles was especially strong in the company’s new production of Mozart’s matchless masterpiece
Syracuse Opera’s ‘Die Fledermaus’ bubbles over with fun, laughter and irresistible music
The company uncorks its 40th Anniversary season with a visually and musically satisfying production of Johann Strauss Jr.’s farcical operetta
Anna Netrebko, now a dramatic soprano, shines in the Met’s dark and murky ‘Macbeth’
The former lyric soprano holds up well — and survives the intrusive close-up camerawork of the ‘Live in HD’ transmission
On The Death of Klinghoffer
This is a revised version of my review of the Sept 5th
1991American premiere of The Death of Klinghoffer, at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music. The opera was first performed at Brussels’ La
Monnaie the previous spring.