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Let the Music Resound at Palm Beach Opera!

Paul du Quenoy March 26, 2023

A step up from the very literal productions usually seen here, this co-production by Opéra de Monte-Carlo and San Francisco Opera removes the action from its usual eighteenth-century setting to the fateful year of 1914.

Love, Betrayal, and Cultural Sensitivity in Palm Beach

Paul du Quenoy March 7, 2023

This is the Madama Butterfly we know and love—almost to the point of guilty pleasure.

Paris Opéra’sTristan Sounds Good but Has Seen Better Days

Paul du Quenoy January 20, 2023

The score of Tristan, an opera that commands what Dudamel claims to be his obsession, radiated brilliantly with a fine Gallic touch from the Opéra’s orchestra.

Progressivism at the Opera: Enough is Enough

Hélène de Lauzun January 12, 2023

Alagna, Kurzak, Tézier, Kaufmann: Does the healthy reaction of these artists herald a new era, when opera will cease to be a place of propaganda, political activism, and wokeism?

A Lady Macbeth To Die For Conquers New York

Paul du Quenoy November 22, 2022

Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson’s deft, efficient gestures captured the performance with balance between its driving sonic eccentricities and subtler and more contemplative passages.

Strauss’s Shadow Over Munich: Die Frau ohne Schatten Overwhelms at Munich’s Opera Festival

Paul du Quenoy September 6, 2022

Warlikowski’s productions tend toward the visceral. His exploration of the opera’s mythological content led him to profound meditations on the fluidity of space and time, of the real and the unreal.

Richard Strauss in His Hometown:
Die Schweigsame Frau and
Der Rosenkavalier in Munich

Paul du Quenoy August 23, 2022

If the visuals left us baffled and disappointed, the musical performance reached toward the stars. The superb soprano Marlis Petersen delivered a sensitive, nuanced Marschallin that captured the character’s emotional dilemmas with a pathos unseen since Renée Fleming gave up the role five years ago.

A Thorough Modern Devil Tempts Paris:
A Review of Gounod’s Faust at the Paris Opera

Paul du Quenoy August 3, 2022

Tobias Kratzer successfully framed the tale’s tension between the temptation of lustful vice and the promise of salvation as a modern ‘crise de conscience.’

Carmen Marks Washington National Opera’s Gala Return to Fully Staged Performances

Paul du Quenoy June 20, 2022

Isabel Leonard’s portrayal of Carmen was commendably human in a world that often also demands some kind of ideology to peer out from the character.

Kyiv’s National Opera House Reopens as War Enters its 4th Month

Robert Semonsen May 29, 2022

For the first time since Russia began its so-called ‘special military operation’ three months ago—and as the war rages on east of the Dnieper River—the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, in a symbolic act of defiance, has reopened its doors to the public.

Tag: opera

Let the Music Resound at Palm Beach Opera!

Love, Betrayal, and Cultural Sensitivity in Palm Beach

Paris Opéra’sTristan Sounds Good but Has Seen Better Days

Progressivism at the Opera: Enough is Enough

A Lady Macbeth To Die For Conquers New York

Strauss’s Shadow Over Munich: Die Frau ohne Schatten Overwhelms at Munich’s Opera Festival

Richard Strauss in His Hometown:
Die Schweigsame Frau and
Der Rosenkavalier in Munich

A Thorough Modern Devil Tempts Paris:
A Review of Gounod’s Faust at the Paris Opera

Carmen Marks Washington National Opera’s Gala Return to Fully Staged Performances

Kyiv’s National Opera House Reopens as War Enters its 4th Month

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