Tapestry Opera / Obsidian Theatre Of the Sea “a very considerable achievement”
Of the Sea; libretto by Kanika Ambrose, music by Ian Cusson, premiered at the Bluma Appel Theatre...
Metropolitan Opera Falstaff “Everything about [Rustioni’s] deft, graceful, shipshape account of this infinitely rewarding score seemed unobtrusively right”
Since its unveiling at London’s Royal Opera in 2012, Robert Carsen’s temporal transplant of...
Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin “musically this was indeed a classy show”
I didn’t much care for his Parsifal, and I liked his Flying Dutchman even less, but at the first...
Opéra National de Paris Peter Grimes “perhaps one of the best opera productions of the last decade”
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, directed by Deborah Warner at the Paris Opera this season, was...
Pacific Opera Victoria The Birds “the large cast of principals was top-notch”
Walter Braunfels’s Die Vögel (The Birds) is a very odd duck. Part allegory, part buffo, part...
Brott Opera La Flambeau “a fascinating world”
I wondered what I was in for when I read the front of the opera program: “A Modern opera about...