Performances
After sedate start, Muti’s Bach eventually reaches the summit – Apr 12, 2013
Muti’s back with Bach. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director returned to the CSO podium Thursday night for the first of three weeks of [...]
Chicago Lyric’s “mariachi opera” offers thin musical salsa – Apr 08, 2013
Under the aegis of general director Anthony Freud, the Lyric Opera of Chicago has been making a concerted effort to draw new audiences to [...]
An excellent cast triumphs over the machine in Met’s “Rheingold” – Apr 07, 2013
Someone involved with the Robert Lepage staging of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Metropolitan Opera must have done something nasty in [...]
Gatti closes New York season with more memorable Wagner, this time with Boston Symphony – Apr 06, 2013
Daniele Gatti’s triumphant New York season, which wrapped up Friday evening at Carnegie Hall, brings to mind something that A. Bartlett Giamatti wrote about [...]
Met’s witty, opulent “Cesare” proves a vocal and visual delight – Apr 05, 2013
With David McVicar’s spirited take on Giulio Cesare, an opulent and vibrant world where British imperialism and raja images represent the Roman conquest of [...]
Lyric Opera’s inspired cast and artful staging can’t make the case for Previn’s pallid “Streetcar” – Mar 27, 2013
Despite all the voluminous press releases and ink that has been spilled since Renée Fleming’s appointment as creative consultant at the Lyric Opera of Chicago [...]
Met’s Atomic Age “Faust” still a directorial nuclear bomb – Mar 22, 2013
Des McAnuff’s 2011 production of Faust returned to New York City’s Metropolitan Opera Thursday night, without the heavy-hitting cast and conductor who were the [...]
Sarasota Opera closes its American series with a devastating “Of Mice and Men” – Mar 18, 2013
In the final tragic moments of Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men, a handsome, well-dressed woman began quietly weeping, continuing without letup until the [...]
Back Bay Chorale muses on last things with new Fairouz work, Mozart Requiem – Mar 18, 2013
“All changed, changed utterly.”…“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” These lines of W.B. Yeats echoed through the cataclysms of the twentieth century. And [...]
“Pearl Fishers” not a jewel at Sarasota Opera – Mar 17, 2013
Sarasota Opera is likely the only regional company in the country where The Pearl Fishers is a repertory piece. Local audiences never seem to [...]
