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Performer: Amanda Seymour

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Rockabilly meets Rossini: Cinderella at Lyric Opera of Kansas City

Jack Swanson (Don Ramiro) and Siphokazi Molteno (Angelina) © Andrew Schwartz
Michael Shell's sparkling new production of La Cenerentola, built locally, opens the season at the Lyric Opera Kansas City. 
****1
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A dark, delicious take on Elizabeth Cree at Glimmerglass Festival

Elizabeth Cree © Glimmerglass Festival | Brent DeLanoy
Mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught anchors a fluid and appealingly staged new production of Kevin Puts' penny dreadful.
****1
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An uneven Turn of the Screw on a 19th-century Bronx estate

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. 

***11
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Curtis Opera Theatre offers overwhelming double bill of family tragedy

The pairing of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea with Rene Orth’sEmpty the House worked perfectly and did absolute justice to these two despair-filled operas.
*****
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