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To the World: a musical geography lesson at Glimmerglass
In place of a full musical, this revue highlighted classic and contemporary songs that celebrate places and cultures, although some selections seemed questionable out of context.
Isabel Leonard soars in Glimmerglass Festival's Songbird
Set in New Orleans during the Jazz Age, this riff on Offenbach's La Périchole captures the festive spirit of the summer, despite some tired jokes.
Odyssey Opera presents Pacini’s Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra
Odyssey Opera’s convincing revival of flawed Pacini in Boston.
Quality singing in a setting with novel accents at Glimmerglass
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.