Author: James Sohre

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is currently presenting an uncommonly compelling staging of Gounod’s luminous musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, performed in English, a key part of the branding…

Gilbert and Sullivan’s evergreen enchantment, that is known as The Pirates of Penzance, rowdily seized the approval of the capacity audience at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and sustained an…

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…

For its landmark Fiftieth Anniversary Season, the Glimmerglass Festival is to be heartily commended for commissioning a bold new work, The House on Mango Street, by composer Derek Bermel, who also…

If you were expecting a Hogarth-pretty version of Igor Stravinsky, W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman’s The Rake’s Progress at the renowned Glimmerglass Festival, you were at the wrong address. For…

For its annual American musical presentation, Glimmerglass Festival lovingly staged a scintillating production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George. It is hard to believe…

To open its Fiftieth Anniversary Season, Glimmerglass Festival opted for a reliable potboiler, Puccini’s Tosca, but with a contemporary twist. Rather than setting it in its scripted time period of…

It proved to be smooth sailing as Des Moines Metro Opera thrillingly met the substantial challenges of Wagner’s seminal work, The Flying Dutchman. They started by assembling a nonpareil cast…

Given the miraculously spellbinding production of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at Des Moines Metro Opera, New Mexico just may have to cede its motto: Land of Enchantment. There is…