CD Review | Nadia Boulanger, La ville morte
Boulanger/Pugno: La ville morte Melissa Harvey, soprano; Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano; Joshua Dennis, tenor; Jorell Williams, baritone; Talea Ensemble; Neil Goren, conductor Pentatone, 2025 La ville…
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CD Review | Les Divas d’Offenbach, Véronique Gens
Les Divas d’Offenbach Véronique Gens, soprano; Chœur et orchestre national des Pays de la Loire; Hervé Niquet, conductor Alpha Classics in collaboration with Palazzetto Bru…
Review | Richard Coeur-de-lion: When Squire is King at Opera in Concert
Tenor Colin Ainsworth’s announced indisposition at VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert’s Nov. 15 presentation of Grétry’s Richard Coeur-de-lion proved not as potentially ruinous as one might…
CD Review | Ambroise Thomas: Psyché, Hélène Guilmette, Bru Zane
Ambroise Thomas: Psyché Hélène Guilmette (Psyché), Antoinette Dennefeld (Éros), Tassis Christoyannis (Mercure), Mercedes Arcuri (Dafné), Anna Dowsley (Bérénice), Artavazd Sargsyan (Antinoüs), Philippe Estèphe (Gorgias) Hungarian…
Review | Canadian Opera Company’s Confounding Roméo et Juliette
Canadian Opera Company opened its 2025-26 season on Sept. 27 with Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, an opera they have not presented in 33 years. It…
CD Review | Rameau: Platée; Château de Versailles Spectacles
Rameau: Platée Mathias Vidal, Zachary Wilder, tenors; Marie Lys, Cécile Achille, sopranos; Alexandre Duhamel, David Witczak,baritones; Juliette Mey, mezzo-soprano; Cyril Costanzo, bass; La Chapelle Harmonique;…
Review | Opera Atelier Showcases French Baroque Spectacle in David and Jonathan
Opera Atelier celebrates its 40th anniversary season with a work that surely must be considered at the core of its four-decade mission. Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s David…
CD Review | Bizet rarities on Bru Zane’s Portrait
Georges Bizet: Portrait Djamileh, Vasco de Gama, Le Retour de Virginie, Clovis et Clotilde, symphonic and choral music, music for piano and arias Karina Gauvin…
Review | Peter Sellars’ Unhip Castor et Pollux in Paris
Nothing is less hip than a strenuous attempt to be hip. This is how polite society would describe Paul Sellars’ take on Rameau’s Castor et…
Review | Joyce El-Khoury Triumphs as Médée in Paris
Premiered in Paris in 1797, Cherubini’s Médée was originally presented with a French libretto, based on Euripides’ play from Greek antiquity. It’s this version that is currently…
