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The English Civil War provides obstacles to Bellini's lovers, but instead of amping up the drama, the additional history knocks it off-kilter.
Laurent Pelly’s spirited revival at the Met turns military mayhem into irresistible comedy.
The piece is a work of enormous scope and forcefulness that reaches, by some pivot of a lens, an intimacy that surprises.
Operas are shot through with tropes and highly stylized actions; comic books offer better source material than one might expect.
Tenor Aaron Blake, tenor Rodell Rosel and bass-baritone Philip Cokorinos with Leon Botstein conducting. Photo: Matt Dine Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal...
In this season's 'La Sonnambula' and 'Macbeth,' the leading ladies rule the day.
Spin—and its darker fascist cousin—is everywhere in Elkhannah Pulitzer’s production of John Adams’s opera.
The final cistern scene, in which a blood-daubed Elza van den Heever as Salome finally kisses the head, is a masterstroke.
Barrie Kosky brings his sleazy, sparkling production to BAM to sharp effect.
Joshua Conyers, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Chauncey Packer and Patrick Quigley. Jennifer Packard, Courtesy of Opera Lafayette In Bordeaux in 1887,...
Director Elizabeth Dinkova flips the script on Salome by ensuring that the audience sees more of the male body than the female one.
The opera is a chimera: McCrae’s words refracted through Hersch’s sensibility, then reframed yet again by McCrae.
The opera is a chimera: McRae’s words refracted through Hersch’s sensibility, then reframed yet again by McRae.
There's plenty here for the historically curious but not quite enough to make for a compelling comedic performance.
This rich, meditative opera succeeds where other operatic treatments of Sor Juana do not.
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