Béatrice et Bénédict is a charmingly complicated relationship in Boston

Donizetti's Maria Padilla is a canvas for sumptuous costumes, regal staging and bel canto voices. The royal court, the wedding finery and the homes of Spanish nobility add up to a visual feast. Even without all this, the opera stands up musically. While some operas benefit (or are saved) by a grand production, Maria Padilla passes the “in the car” test.

Even though, unlike most American opera lovers, I am not a big fan of Puccini’s music, Tosca has a very special place in my heart. Set to the most heartbreaking and overwhelmingly beautiful music, this story of a classical love triangle ending in the three deaths never gets too old or too boring.

Les Arts triunfa con una deslumbrante Salomé, a la par que terriblemente humana. 

Un Vivaldi de sorprendente vigor teatral cierra en el Teatro Real la gira europea de la Freiburger Barockorchester bajo la batuta de René Jacobs.

Andrés Salado dirige La traviata con buen equilibrio y riqueza orquestal, producción de la Fundació Òpera Catalunya en la que destacó Tina Gorina, por su naturalidad y dominio de la voz.

El Teatro de la Zarzuela recupera una ópera bufa de Manuel García en la que la gitanilla de Sabina Puértolas enamora.