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.
Category: Performances
Ponnelle Clemenza remains a masterpiece
Opera companies should practice historic preservation, keeping certain productions forever in the repertory because of their quality and aesthetic value.
Nono’s Prometeo at Royal Festival Hall
Prometeo is so radically different that itís almost incomprehensible heard from preconceived assumptions of what music ìoughtî to be.
John Brown lives again in Kansas City
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.
Fort Worth Opera Festival features ìAngels in Americaî
In 2007 it was an experiment; now itís a new summer festival firmly rooted in fertile Texas turf with a bright view of its second season and of the more distant future as well.
Die Entf¸hrung aus dem Serail
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.
Punch & Judy at ENO
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.
The Collegiate Chorale: Jupiter in Argos
Over the years, one tried and true method of packing audiences in to the concerts of Robert Bassís Collegiate Chorale has been to present concert opera with impressive soloists.
Ned Rorem’s Our Town
Martha Graham used to say, “In order for there to be dance, there must be something that needs to be danced.”
Canadaís Brueggergosman makes the most of Mozart
When Torontoís Opera Atelier asked her to sing Elettra in Mozartís Idomeneo Measha Brueggergosman hesitated.