With its aquatic opening, magic tricks and grand procession across a rainbow bridge, Charlie Edwards’s production manages to remain clear-sighted despite modest budgets ...
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Alice gets a musical-theatre belter, the ‘Drink Me’ Bottle performs soprano acrobatics and the Caterpillar smokes his hookah like Audrey Hepburn ...
San Francisco Opera's explosive, over-the- top "Elektra," a revival of Keith Warner's 2017 production, features a fine cast ...
The conundrum of five women, three of them men, is the same as it was in the last Serse I witnessed, in the more intimate ...
Opera is perceived as the most traditional of the performing arts—its repertory ossified into a canon of 19th-century warhorses, its performance style determined by the constraints of the proscenium ...
AMHERST — Opera channels our clearest emotions: those so innate that they splash out in naive singsong, and those so deep that, when released, they can only bear to be sung. “The Onion,” with a ...
Emilie Kealani and Minghao Liu as Corinna and Belfiore. Photo: Steven Pisano Revivals across the globe followed, including a 1999 production by New York City Opera, but Viaggio didn’t actively ...
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — With magnificent sets, a sobering world, and an orchestra and chorus that were on-form and then some, Bard College’s SummerScape created a “Le Prophète” that was compelling ...
In this version, a team of over 100 scholars, editors and engravers completed Dédé’s orchestration and prepared a modern edition. In this concert version, the material is cut down to a tidy, engaging ...