Author: john_y

Covent Garden has revived director Robert Lepage’s popular and well-traveled version of The Rake’s Progress with often thrilling results.

Encountering Frankfurt Opera’s staging of Leoni’s L’Oracolo and Puccini’s Le Villi, I was reminded of that old saw about the German weather.

It is hard to know where to start to adequately laud Netherlands Opera’s witty new La Fanciulla del West.

Il Corsaro, the Verdi rarity currently on display at Z¸rich Opera, is the best of both possible worlds.

The Paris Opera season started with ‘un boum,’ scoring decisive successes with two infrequently performed stage pieces.

The Wagner Festspiel loves to provoke.

Everyone once in a while, we veteran opera-goers are privileged to see a promising artist give a break-out performance that announces a giant step forward into major stardom.

Paris Opera seems to posit the question: Does anyone completely understand what Karol Szymanowski’s King Roger is about?

Were someone looking to assemble a musical Dream Team to thrill us to the core with Wagner’s Lohengrin, one would need look no further than the assembled forces currently on stage at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera.