Author: john_y

A roster of exciting young artists supported by the Concertgebouw Orchestra
in the pit, ensured that Amsterdam’s Carmen worked its
usual spell.

It is quite possible that Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is the leading summer opera destination in the United States.

Although there was considerable theatrical imagination on display, redemption was in critically short supply in Peter Konwitschny’s production of The Flying Dutchman at Munich’s estimable Bavarian State Opera.

The Scottish Play’s ability to conduit bad luck is apparently not limited to the spoken stage, witness the new Paris OpÈra production of Verdi’s Macbeth.

Was Tony Kushner’s monumental play Angels in America in need of being musicalized?

I had been looking forward to it for weeks — really, for years.

It is not often that the team of stage director, set and costume designer get the biggest, most boisterously rowdy roar of approval at opera’s end.

My heart didn’t exactly leap in joyful anticipation as I entered the Frankfurt Opera and saw the Arabella pre-set on stage: a big, shallow, white box.

One definition of “poach” is “to take or appropriate something unfairly.”

ThÈ‚tre Royal de la Monnaie / De Munt started 2009 by serving up a real New Year’s treat for the Belgian capital’s opera enthusiasts: a near-perfect staging of Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice.