Performer: Patricia Racette

Triumph für die Neuproduktion von John Coriglianos Geister von Versailles an der Los Angeles Opera

Stripped of melodramatic excess, soprano Patricia Racette and director James Darrah craft a portrait of a desperate, lonely woman that is uncomfortably, thrillingly human.

L'ouvrage lyrique méconnu de Kurt Weill bénéficie d'une distribution américaine inspirée, d'une mise en scène agréablement surprenante et d'un excellent Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.

Una producción redonda de David Alden que tiene en Patricia Racette y la dirección musical del maestro Josep Pons sus mejores credenciales.

Chaotic staging detracts from imaginative pairing of Poulenc's songs with his one-act, one-performer opera. 

Candide is a witty satiric fable, intelligent, literary but not to a fault, and vastly entertaining. Created by a team of collaborators who fell out at different times in the work’s 52 year history – at one point or another, Lillian Hellman, Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim and, of course, composer Leonard Bernstein had a hand in it – it is unique in the operatic or