Sarah Marie Kramer is ‘luxuriant’ in Longborough Festival’s Die Walküre
Britain has an established tradition of “country house opera,” with almost a dozen companies...
Jordan de Souza makes Lyric Opera of Chicago debut with ‘neo-Romantic’ Florencia en el Amazonas
Lyric Opera of Chicago presented its first-ever Spanish-language mainstage opera on Nov. 13th with...
Glenn Gould School’s Svadba: ‘energetic’ return to live
Ana Sokolović’s Svadba was premiered by (now defunct) Queen of Puddings Music Theatre in Toronto...
Maritime Concert Opera returns with ‘dynamic’ Cavalleria rusticana & Oxner tribute
Attending a live in-concert opera for the first time in almost two years was thrilling. The first...
Oper Frankfurt’s Salome is a watershed for Ambur Braid in the title role
Both the music and text of Richard Strauss's Salome, which uses Oscar Wilde's play of the same...
Gianni Schicchi at the COC: A felicitous if, ‘virtual’, re-start
It has been the longest silence in COC history. To opera-starved audience members like yours...