The balcony scene of Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet includes Juliet telling Romeo: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.” Names matter…
Category: Semi-staged Operas
Opera Baltimore Offers Rare Bel Canto Gem Lucrezia Borgia
Although one might not expect much from a concert opera with piano, Opera Baltimore’s latest production, of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, proves that we should neither doubt the power of the…
Blood and Gore in Hamburg: Richard Strauss’s Elektra
Do you want screams, blood-curdling cries, the unearthing of a buried axe, twisted minds messing with your own head? Richard Strauss gives it to you all in his Elektra. Those…