Category: Performances

Chicago Opera Theater scored a resounding success with its area premiere of John Adamsí newest stage piece, ìA Flowering Tree.î

Upon its premiere at Chicagoís Lyric Opera in 1997 Anthony Davisí Amistad found little critical favor. Its undisciplined excesses led one writer to compare it to a high-school pageant.

In these days of ‘concept’ productions, it is rare that the curtain goes up on the first act of an opera and it looks exactly as one might reasonably expect it to.

I can still remember my first ever ìPelleas et Melisandeî in my first ever outing at San Francisco Opera during my first ever visit to that beautiful town.

A recent visit to Berlin’s three opera houses yielded decidedly, nay wildly varying outcomes.

The Gotham Chamber Opera has been delighting opera fans on the Lower East Side for seven years now, one small audience at a time.

Thirty-six years after Sarah Caldwell and the Opera Company of Boston presented the first complete staged performances in the United States, Hector Berliozí Les Troyens returned to Boston in triumph in a series of concert performances presented by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Levine to close the BSOís 2007-2008 season.

Opera companies should practice historic preservation, keeping certain productions forever in the repertory because of their quality and aesthetic value.

Prometeo is so radically different that itís almost incomprehensible heard from preconceived assumptions of what music ìoughtî to be.

John Brown might have been aímouldering in his grave since he was hanged in 1859, but he was resurrected ó in body and spirit ó on May 3, when the Lyric Opera of Kansas City staged the world premiere of Kirke Mechemís John Brown.