Joyce El-Khoury “magnificent” in WNO’s Madama Butterfly
Welsh National Opera’s previous production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, by Joachim Herz, stayed...
Gordon Bintner unleashes comedic skills in Oper Frankfurt’s L’italiana in Londra
Domenico Cimarosa. Heard of him? Try humming your favourite aria of his. Drawing a blank, right?...
La Monnaie’s “topical” The Time of Our Singing
Topical, trendy, thought-provoking. In a nutshell, that’s Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and...
Soundstreams’ “cleverly constructed”Garden of Vanished Pleasures
Director Tim Albery has a track record of staging shows built around song. One thinks of Last Days...
Sondra Radvanovsky debuts her Lady in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Macbeth
Everyone present wanted Lyric Opera of Chicago to have a triumph with its season opener—the first...
MUO returns live with Berlioz, Bartók & Sokolović
There’s irony in the fact that one of the last public sightings of Manitoba Underground...