Category: Performances

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.

Die Entf¸hrung aus dem Serail is too light to be a grand opera, but it makes rather grander demands of its singers than operetta could possibly bear.

English National Opera’s production of Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘Punch and Judy’ is the company’s second collaboration with the Young Vic Theatre — following the premiere of Neuwirth’s ‘Lost Highway’ a few weeks earlier — and remarkably, also the second London production of this early Birtwistle work within a month, the previous one having been at the Linbury Studio Theatre, a collaboration between Music Theatre Wales and the Royal Opera.