Review: English National Opera’s high-energy production of Paul Bunyan an “immersive theatrical event”
The trouble with Paul Bunyan is that the music is too good. If Benjamin Britten hadn’t been...
Review: Manitoba Underground Opera wraps up another season of re-imagined classics
Manitoba Underground Opera surfaced once again on the cusp of Winnipeg's regular arts season with...
Review: Highlands Opera Studio 1940s La Bohème much more than an operatic warhorse
It was with a certain degree of ambivalence that I attended the summer 2018 production of La...
Review: Russell Braun demonstrates “astonishing expressive power” in The Bassarids at Salzburg Festival
When he began working on The Bassarids in 1963, the 37-year-old Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012) had...
Review: Joyce El-Khoury brings a ‘meaty dramatic approach’ to long-lost Liszt opera Sardanapalo
Can something be called ‘new’ 170 years after it was written? In the case of Franz Liszt’s...
Review: Santa Fe Opera returns to its Straussian roots with a new, “not to be missed” Ariadne auf Naxos
When the late John Crosby created an opera house in the middle of the New Mexican desert, just...
