Glimmerglass 2017 – The Afterglow
Retrospective of the Glimmerglass Festival mainstage season of Summer 2017: Xerxes, by G.F. Handel (libretto by Minato and Stampiglia); The Siege of Calais by Gaetano…
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Musica Camerata Kicks Off 48th Season
Musica Camerata kicked off its 48th season with an evening of quartets for piano, violin, viola, and cello. Respected as a premiere Canadian chamber ensemble,…
She Falls from a Tower Shaped Like a Dagger
A splendid new co-production of Puccini’s Tosca by Opéra de Montréal and the Cincinatti Opera broods on the terrible power of art, eros, and the…
Peter Bay’s 20th Austin Symphony Season Begins with French Connection
Mozart in Paris Poulenc: Suite from “Les Biches” FP36 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major K. 450 Poulenc: Concert Champêtre for Harpsichord…
Moscow on the Hudson – Antonín Dvorák’s Dimitrij at Bard SummerScape 2017
RETROSPECTIVE: of the Bard SummerScape 2017 production of Antonín Dvořák’s 1882 opera Dimitrij (July 28 and 30 and August 2, 4 and 6) at the…
Opera Saratoga: The Racing City’s OTHER Season…
RETROSPECTIVE: of Opera Saratoga’s 2017 Summer Mainstage Season (July 1 through 16) – Verdi’s Falstaff; Grétry’s and Marmontel’s Zémire et Azor; Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will…
Ariadne auf Naxos at the Berkshire Opera Festival: Serious Fun with a Girl, a God, and a Bunch of Gags
REVIEW: Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos in a new production at the Berkshire Opera Festival. It’s a backstage story as only Richard Strauss and his…
Final Concert of l’Orchestre de la Francophonie
Would you be willing to spend a sweltering summer evening listening to a youth orchestra in a venue with no air-conditioning? The hundreds who did…
Verbier Festival’s Salome by Richard Strauss, Medici.tv’s There and Here
One of the great delights of today’s viewer technology is sitting in your living room, a cup of chocolate in your hand, and, before you,…
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo – Handel’s Italian Masterpiece at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust
REVIEW: George Frideric Handel’s 1708 cantata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, starring Ambur Braid, Anthony Roth Costanzo and Davóne Tines, directed by…
