An energetic and exceptionally entertaining production of CosÏ fan tutte sung in English and set during World War II, when the Americans often got the girls.
Author: Gary Hoffman
The Barber of Seville, San Diego
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’ classic play The Barber of
Seville, set by Rossini to perfectly paced and irresistibly comic music,
was first performed in Rome in 1816, and remains one of the world’s favorite
operas.
The Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2012
This year’s Kathleen Ferrier Awards final was both a competition and a
celebration, marking as it did the centenary anniversary of the great singer’s birth.
Daughter of the Regiment, Manitoba Opera
Manitoba Opera laid aside all stereotypes about opera being stuffy and inaccessible with its feel-good production of Donizetti’s 1840 comic opera Daughter of the Regiment.
Der fliegende Holl‰nder, ENO
ENO’s peculiar decision not to stage any Wagner during its 2012-13 season, that is the season in which the greater part of Wagner’s bicentenary falls, is at least mitigated by a new production of The Flying Dutchman during this preceding season.
Two from Florence
The double bill of Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy with
Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, currently being presented by the Canadian Opera Company, is a marriage made in heaven, a pair of complementary opposites who seem to belong together.
Manon, Metropolitan Opera
Massenet’s Manon succeeds in the theater when the soprano has
a real sense of the role and how she wants to present it.
Torsten Kerl to Perform Tannh‰user
Casting changes continue at the Bayreuth Festival, now only three months
away.