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La bohème as escapist epic at LA Opera
Puccini's tale of bohemian love lives on at the Dorothy Chandler as LA Opera launches its 2025-26 season.
Reality wants augmenting in Daniel Kramer's Die tote Stadt
What's a director to do while we wait for technology to catch up with the complexities of the human condition?
The NY Phil pays tribute to Sondheim at Bravo! Vail
The New York Phil concluded its six-concert residency at this summer’s Bravo! Vail Festival with a survey of Stephen Sondheim’s legacy stylishly led by Leonard Slatkin.
Berkshire Opera's sparkling Don Pasquale
Craig Colclough's Don Pasquale is arrogant, boyishly hopeful, outraged and pathetic by turns, his singing free of silly buffo mannerisms, the voice grand.
Don Pasquale opens the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival
Farce, slapstick and cruel humour are to the fore in this Blackwater Valley Opera production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale.
The Magic Flute: American nostalgia invoked in Chicago
Setting the opera in the backyard of a suburban house feels refreshingly honest: the ridiculous and simplistic tale of the evil witch, the prince and the maiden is rightfully returned to the arena of children's games, and adults look on indulgently, with a wink.