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Brilliant Tosca Opens New Palm Beach Opera Season

Paul du Quenoy February 25, 2024

The highlight was soprano Anastasia Bartoli, who shined in a stellar cast and in an overall enthralling performance.

Somber Tannhäuser Revival Has Highs and Lows

Paul du Quenoy February 5, 2024

The brilliant soloists at the Met were underserved by a worn production and subpar conducting.

Vivaldi & Others: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi—the Italian Mozart

Kees Vlaardingerbroek January 28, 2024

A consequence of Pergolesi’s posthumous fame: publishers sold works by other composers under Pergolesi’s commercially attractive name.

The End of the World on the Danube: Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung at the Hungarian State Opera

Paul du Quenoy December 28, 2023

A nearly all-Hungarian cast delivered the production with a skill that should, in most cases, make the singers internationally famous.

Mefistofele Haunts Rome

Paul du Quenoy December 23, 2023

In our nihilistic age, Boito’s Mefistofele may be primed for a comeback.

Salvation in Goethe and Gounod

Shawn Phillip Cooper December 21, 2023

Faust’s salvation, as with humanity’s, comes only in time.

Triumph of an Old Classic at La Scala: Montemezzi’s L’Amore dei Tre Re

Paul du Quenoy December 16, 2023

In this operatic wonder, the characters’ passions are otherworldly in their intensity.

A Pale Revival of a Ghostly Classic: Un Ballo in Maschera at the Met

Paul du Quenoy November 5, 2023

The passion is palpable, but there is a smallness to the sets that cools the fire in the characters’ souls.

Scandinavian Starlight: Lise Davidsen in Recital at the Met Opera

Paul du Quenoy September 24, 2023

The recital left the overall impression of a solid and earnest singer with strong ambitions that may well be fulfilled in the march of time.

A Macbeth Signifying Nothing on the Salzburg Stage

Paul du Quenoy August 17, 2023

Following an unfortunate trend in European stage production, Warlikowski reduces Macbeth to a psychiatric diagnosis, with the characters exploring their pathologies in the confines of a mental institution.

Tag: opera

Brilliant Tosca Opens New Palm Beach Opera Season

Somber Tannhäuser Revival Has Highs and Lows

Vivaldi & Others: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi—the Italian Mozart

The End of the World on the Danube: Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung at the Hungarian State Opera

Mefistofele Haunts Rome

Salvation in Goethe and Gounod

Triumph of an Old Classic at La Scala: Montemezzi’s L’Amore dei Tre Re

A Pale Revival of a Ghostly Classic: Un Ballo in Maschera at the Met

Scandinavian Starlight: Lise Davidsen in Recital at the Met Opera

A Macbeth Signifying Nothing on the Salzburg Stage

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Winter 2024, Issue 33

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