Author: James Sohre

Salome is a big, big sing and happily, Des Moines Metro Opera has engaged a big, big star. “Dazzling” is too puny an adjective to describe Sara Gartland for her…

Well, well, well, Des Moines Metro Opera has done it again. With their unerringly imaginative and evocative staging of Claude Debussy’s hauntingly lovely masterpiece Pelléas et Mélisande, they have made…

A musically resplendent presentation of Georg Frideric Handel’s Julius Caesar covered Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in glory. Guilio Cesare in Egitto is number one on Handel’s operatic hit parade…

You don’t need a telescope to spot the stars in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ winning and sumptuous production of Philip Glass and Mary Zimmerman’s Galileo Galilei.  They are all…

Opera Idaho has gifted their public with a thrillingly sung and played performance of Charles Gounod’s tuneful and compelling take on Shakespeare’s evergreen classic tale of star-crossed love: Romeo and…

It was a big leap today from the effervescent afternoon performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s acclaimed comic delight, The Daughter of the Regiment, to the somber evening show of the same…

If the Wexford Festival’s evening fare in their Women & War themed season is deadly serious, the afternoon offerings were chockful of amusing confections that are more fun than a…

When you enter the auditorium for the performance of Mark Tutino, Fabio Ceresa and Luca Rossi’s La ciociara (Two Women), the darkened stage is fronted on the far left apron…

The venerable Wexford Festival’s M.O. is rehabilitating forgotten operas from the past, and few are further beyond recollection than Camille Erlanger’s competent potboiler, L’Aube rouge (The Red Dawn). The libretto…

Santa Fe Opera staged another local premiere this summer with the welcome company addition of Antonín Dvořák and Jaroslav Kvapil’s splendid opera, Rusalka, directed by the acclaimed Sir David Pountney.…