Category: Performances

What to make of “Lucrezia Borgia”? I have always felt that, some lovely arias notwithstanding, this Donizetti work never really gets going until the slam-bang soprano-baritone duet in Act II.

That Fed Dostoevsky ñ sure plays a mean pinball!

Plainly put, Frankfurt Operaís ìThe Rape of Lucretiaî could be offered as a textbook example of just how great a performance can be when everything goes right.

BERLIN ó Which car-rental agency was it that was once No. 2 and ìtrying harder?î

In a climate in which bel canto opera seems to be enjoying a steady and welcome revival, ETO opened their current season with a welcome production of Donizetti’s historically dubious…

The most interesting opera on ETO’s Spring 2008 tour was Carlisle Floyd’s 1950s tale of religious hypocrisy in the rural Deep South, based on the Apocryphal tale of Susannah and the Elders.

The last of the three operas on ETO’s Spring 2008 tour was sung in English, and updated to a Spain of the mid-twentieth century under Franco.

Opera companies often tout new productions as a major attraction of their seasons.

UC Opera’s reputation for showcasing rare large-scale works has been boosted this year with the UK premiere of this 1846 opera by Edouard Lalo after a Schiller play.

As Anna Russell might say: “The three operas of Puccini’s ‘Il Trittico’ take place on a luxury cruise liner. . . . . On it.”