En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Ashley Emerson

Pour la production de ce Candide, le Capitole recevait un plateau et une équipe presque entièrement issus des milieux américains, faisant souffler dans l’enceinte du théâtre un vent de fraîcheur et de nouveauté.

New York City's Metropolitan Opera restages its shorter, family-friendly version of Mozart's The Magic Flute with great music and delightful visuals.

A disappointing decision to downplay the ghosts and uneven performances made for a difficult and distracting in situ staging of Britten's adaptation of the classic Henry James thriller. 

The musical experience was dominated by the imagery making spectators feel, at least at times, overwhelmed.

After an absence of nearly a quarter-century, Humperdinck's evergreen returns to Seattle Opera in a winningly staged, musically sensitive production that looks beneath the fairy-tale surface.

Mozart’s beauty asserted but never implied, Sir Richard Eyre’s Le nozze di Figaro brings grand complications in bright turns and quick wit.

Some very fine singing and beautiful, if sometimes confusing, visual effects in Opera Philadelphia's Don Carlo.  

A safe performance of Poulenc's extraordinary opera in Washington, lacking in pity and terror.

Take four very talented performers. Throw in a score that pushes them to their vocal limits. Add an accordion and a fishing reel to the orchestra. Mix with a healthy dose of wry humor. Dot with ostrich features in Mary Kay pink. Simmer with sexual innuendo for two hours and eleven minutes.