Author: john_y

Bernstein’s Candide seems to have more performance versions than Tales of Hoffmann.

Glimmerglass is celebrating its 40th Festival season with a stylish new production of Verdi’s Macbeth.

The Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West) often gets eclipsed when compared to the rest of the mature Puccini canon.

With its revelatory production of Rappaccini’s Daughter performed outdoors in the city’s refurbished Botanical Gardens, Des Moines Metro Opera has unlocked the gate to a mysterious, challenging landscape of musical delights.

Des Moines Metro Opera has quite a crowd-pleasing production of The Abduction from the Seraglio on its hands.

If La Rondine (The Swallow) is a less-admired work than rest of the mature Puccini canon, you wouldn’t have known it by the lavish production now lovingly staged by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

Few companies have championed new or neglected works quite as fervently and consistently as the industrious Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

For Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, “everything old is new again.”