Librettist David Harsent notes that there is no doubt that Judas’s betrayal led to Christ’s death,...
Communications
Choral at Cadogan: The Tallis Scholars open a new season
This, and the striking opening of the first piece, Palestrina’s motet Laudate pueri, set me...
Stars of Lyric Opera 2017, Millennium Park, Chicago
The Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Lyric Opera Chorus, under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis and...
Review: A Verlaine Songbook
Today, singers and their pianists are often more willing also to explore repertory by composers...
Die Zauberflöte at the ROH: radiant and eternal
As we journey from the dungeon-esque darkness of the Queen’s nocturnal demesne towards the...
A Mysterious Lucia at Forest Lawn
Conductor Isaac Selya and his orchestra of twenty-seven played the overture with its...
This is Rattle: Blazing Berlioz at the Barbican Hall
If Simon Rattle can achieve such excellence in the cramped confines of the Barbican Hall, imagine...
Moved Takes on Philadelphia Headlines
That is marketing shorthand for Philadelphia Opera Festival 2017, and in longhand, this is a...
Philly Flute’s Fast and Furious Frills
The O17 festival has appropriated Barry Koskie’s acclaimed eye-popping production and cast it from...
At War With Philadelphia
At the renowned Philadelphia Museum of Art they presented War Stories, a double bill of...