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Frederick Ballentine’s Loge shines in Das Rheingold
Despite some confused visual elements, an excellent musical performance makes Seattle Opera's production well worth watching.
Seattle Opera delivers Dove's Flight with panache
Seattle Opera do full justice to Dove and De Angelis's comic opera with a dark twist, filming it in the city's Museum of Flight.
Two Gordon Getty operas get the Masterpiece Theatre treatment
Two charming operas featured splendid singing in a haze of choreography, staging and projections in a setting that had the feel of being live in a surround sound movie theater.
A Rheingold that works on every level in Minnesota
Highly idiomatic and effective singing by Greer Grimsley, Denyce Graves and other cast members, coupled with inventive stagecraft wizardry, make the Minnesota Opera's first-ever Rheingold a memorable production.
Champion at Opera Parallele: strong, but no knockout
Opera Parallele's production of Terence Blanchard's Champion: An Opera in Jazz features great performances but an uneven score and spotty blocking.