At my advanced age, I have now experienced ten different productions of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman in my opera-going lifetime, but Opera San Jose’s just might be the finest.
Tag: Sohre
Fantasy in Philadelphia: The Wake World
Composer and librettist David Hertzberg’s magical mystery tour that is The Wake World opened to a cheering sold out audience that was clearly enraptured with its magnificent artistic achievement.
Moved Takes on Philadelphia Headlines
There‘s a powerful new force in the opera world and its name is O17.
Philly Flute’s Fast and Furious Frills
If you never thought opera could make your eyes cross with visual sensory over load, you never saw Opera Philadelphia’s razzle-dazzle The Magic Flute.
Philadelphia: Putting On Great Opera Can Be Murder
Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell have gifted Opera Philadelphia (and by extension, the world) with a crackling and melodious new stage piece, Elizabeth Cree.
Santa Fe: Entertaining If Not Exactly (R)evolutionary
You know what I loved best about Santa Fe Opera’s world premiere The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs?
Full-throated Cockerel at Santa Fe
A tale of a lazy, befuddled world leader that ‘has no clothes on’ and his two dimwit sons, hmmmm, what does that remind me of. . .?
COC’d Up Ariodante
Director Richard Jones never met an opera he couldn’t ‘change,’ and Canadian Opera Company’s sumptuously sung Ariodante was a case in point.
Toronto: Bullish on Bellini
Canadian Opera Company has assembled a commendable Norma that is long on ritual imagery and war machinery.