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Francesca Zambello sets the whole opera as a flashback, showing, during the prelude, the heroine surrounded by doctors and nurses in a sanatorium for patients dying from tuberculosis.

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Cooperstown

04 Aug 2019

Quality singing in a setting with novel accents at Glimmerglass

Von Edward Sava-Segal

Washington

Venera Gimadieva leads a moving Traviata in DC

Von Ako Imamura, 21 Oktober 2018

A strong new Traviata from Washington National Opera with the welcome house debut of Venera Gimadieva as a fabulous Violetta.

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Washington

21 Okt 2018

Venera Gimadieva leads a moving Traviata in DC

Von Ako Imamura

Kansas City

West Side Story in Kansas City: Broadway flair meets opera style

Von Hilary Stroh, 22 September 2018

Zambello's politically re-'woke' West Side Story comes to Kansas.

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Kansas City

22 Sep 2018

West Side Story in Kansas City: Broadway flair meets opera style

Von Hilary Stroh

Seattle

Seattle Opera's Porgy and Bess is a vocal and dramatic stunner

Von Jason Victor Serinus, 11 August 2018

Seattle Opera's memorable Porgy and Bess excels with an exceptional cast who performed with utmost sympathy for their roles.

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Seattle

11 Aug 2018

Seattle Opera's Porgy and Bess is a vocal and dramatic stunner

Von Jason Victor Serinus

Cooperstown

Francesca Zambello’s Porgy and Bess successfully revived at Glimmerglass

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 05 August 2017

Glimmerglass’ Porgy and Bess proves one more time that Gershwin’s opus remains America’s most important 20th-century opera.

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Cooperstown

05 Aug 2017

Zambello’s Porgy and Bess at Glimmerglass

Von Edward Sava-Segal

San Francisco

Tutino's Two Women at San Francisco: multi-media heavy, but worth investigating

Von Paul Selar, 13 Juni 2015

Marco Tutino's Two Women at San Francisco Opera feels lacking in musical originality and its out-of-date accompanying taste of re-heated Italian verismo comes a little over-cooked.

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San Francisco

13 Jun 2015

Tutino's Two Women at San Francisco

Von Paul Selar

New York City

The Rake’s Progress makes for a rare, gratifying evening of neoclassical whimsy at The Met

Von Rebecca Lentjes, 01 Mai 2015

A bearded lady and her taxidermied shark are just two eccentric characters livening up Stravinsky’s 1951 moral fable The Rake’s Progress, though the shark is unique to Jonathan Miller’s revived production.

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New York City

01 Mai 2015

The Rake’s Progress: neoclassical whimsy at The Met

Von Rebecca Lentjes

Chicago

A near-perfect Porgy and Bess at the Lyric Opera

Von Dan Wang, 26 November 2014

The marriage between performers and score here is perfect, because Gershwin’s text-setting is near-miraculous, somehow every word is clear and seems to be naturally inflected by the curvature of the musical line.

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Chicago

26 Nov 2014

A near-perfect Porgy and Bess at the Lyric Opera

Von Dan Wang