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On a knife-edge: Carmen returns to English National Opera
Bieito’s vivid production of Bizet's most famous work is a classic; his attack on toxic masculinity is visceral, made more potent by an excellent leading pair of singers.
Porgy and Bess at ENO: Gershwin's music the winner
Porgy and Bess isn’t a perfect opera, but English National Opera's new production is a strong one.
From Plato to Voltaire: the BBCSO’s Bernstein
The finale of the BBCSO’s Bernstein celebration features the composer at his most sublime and frivolous, and offers a rare performance of Songfest for six soloists and orchestra.
Spano Conducts a Concert Version Otello in Atlanta
With Verdi's Otello, Music Director Robert Spano continues a recent Atlanta Symphony Orchestra tradition of presenting grand operatic works in a concert hall version
Spano and Theofanidis create a powerful partnership
Robert Spano leads a masterfully staged performance of Theofanidis' grand oratorio Creation/Creator.
Bloch's long-forgotten Macbeth revived by Long Beach Opera
It takes some brashness (and perhaps just a little bit of megalomania) on the part of a composer to choose Macbeth, of all of the Bard’s plays, to set to music. As if one can ignore that in the hearts and minds of most listeners, Verdi had the first, last, and only word in musical adaptations of Shakespeare’s drama of bloody intrigue.