West Edge Opera Festival revealed a compelling new staging of Britten’s chilling psychological thriller, The Turn of the Screw. Director Mark Streshinsky had the good fortune of revisiting this haunting…
West Edge Rinaldo: Pow! Bam! Wow!
West Edge Opera has mounted a distinctly engaging staging of Handel’s Rinaldo that is not only musically thrilling, but also visually as much fun and as rambunctious as a box…
Last And Certainly Not Least: Angela Yam and Korin Thomas-Smith in the Wolf Trap Opera Salon Series
If their mainstage operas are the larger jewels in Wolf Trap Opera’s crown, it can be said that their Salon Series recitals are the smaller gems, but no less critical…
PROMS 2026: Grandeur and Intimacy Shape Pappano’s Revelatory Berlioz Requiem
Who in their right mind today would write such a wildly ambitious Requiem? In addition to a requirement for a large choir, Berlioz’s orchestral forces demand four brass bands and…
Rodelinda Rocks and Rules in Santa Fe
Santa Fe Opera’s stunning production of Handel’s Rodelinda is unquestionably among the finest realizations of a Baroque Opera I have ever experienced. Quite simply, it succeeds on every level and…
Bravo, Figaro!: Il barbiere di Siviglia at Charlottesville Opera
There’s a reason operatic masterpieces remain popular even in their traditional settings. Under the direction of Kyle Lang, the team of designers at Charlottesville Opera did perfect justice to Rossini’s…
How Do You Like Me Now?: Eugene Onegin at Wolf Trap Opera
With arguably the best ending of any opera, it was exciting to sit down to take in Wolf Trap Opera’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. As with the production of…
Tartuffe at Shakespeare Opera Theatre: Farce of Dandies
The companion to this company’s excellent production of Susannah, Shakespeare Opera Theatre’s production of Kirke Mechem’s Tartuffe proved no less transporting. With a beautiful chandelier by Cleta Raymond and sumptuous…
PROMS 2026: A Call to Revolution with the LA Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel
In this instance dictionaries do not leave room for ambiguity: a revolution is a sudden, fundamental change. As a branding name, it has been much prized by all kinds of…
Santa Fe Onegin: Tatyana’s Phantasmagoria
It took some time for me to get oriented at Santa Fe Opera’s often (too) busy staging of Tchaikovsky’s lush masterwork, Eugene Onegin, but overall the musical excellence reigned supreme.…