The Metropolitan Opera
Dead Man Walking “Jake Heggie, I hope, was feeling justifiably proud”
Dead Man Walking, the opera, has enjoyed a remarkable life: it’s been around for twenty-three...
Canadian Opera Company
Fidelio “Built to a thrilling conclusion that was exhilarating”
Beethoven famously regarded his only opera, Fidelio, as a problem child that cost him dearly, and...
Canadian Opera
La bohème “The attractive power of La bohème is such that even after seeing it countless times, you can be sucked right back into its world after just a few bars”
The Canadian Opera Company mounted its John Caird staging of Puccini’s La bohème for the third...
San Francisco Opera
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs “Olivia Smith was outstanding”
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs by Mason Bates, with libretto by Mark Campbell, starts with Jobs’s...
Park Avenue Armory
Doppelganger featured “Michael Levine’s typically spare and striking design”
What is it about Schubert song cycles that attracts the Regie gang? In recent years Christof Loy,...
San Francisco Opera
Il trovatore “Eun Sun Kim has brought fresh life to the San Francisco Opera”
Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore is about a hallucinating witch and two men who do not know they are...
