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Mozart meets Gatsby in LA Opera’s new Così fan tutte

By Laurence Vittes, 08 March 2025

Michael Cavanagh's sleek new production, designed by Erhard Rom and conducted by James Conlon, transforms the 18th-century opera into a Broadway musical, score by Mozart.

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Los Angeles

08 Mar 2025

Mozart meets Gatsby in LA Opera’s new Così fan tutte

By Laurence Vittes

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New York City

Allan Clayton dazzles in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera

By David Wolfson, 18 May 2022

Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Met is a worthy addition to the operatic canon, and the production is a treat.

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New York City

18 May 2022

Allan Clayton dazzles in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Met

By David Wolfson

Annandale-on-Hudson

Chausson's rarely heard Le Roi Arthus well served at Bard

By Robert Levine, 25 July 2021

The first fully staged American production of Chausson's sole opera features remarkable singing, fine storytelling and plush orchestral playing.

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Annandale-on-Hudson

25 Jul 2021

Chausson's rarely heard Le Roi Arthus well served at Bard

By Robert Levine

New York City

City Lyric's Threepenny Opera suffers under the weight of its own ambitions

By Kurt Gottschalk, 05 November 2020

The live-streamed production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera sought to reinvent for online presentation but ended up uneven and overly busy.

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New York City

05 Nov 2020

Threepenny Opera suffers under the weight of its own ambitions

By Kurt Gottschalk

Cooperstown

Francesca Zambello’s Porgy and Bess successfully revived at Glimmerglass

By 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

By Edward Sava-Segal