Such thoughts on the part of a humble reviewer, and very possibly most members of an audience too, were prompted by BBC ...

perhaps we had all better settle down to this new era.

Michael Maniaci (Photo: Lake, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) The Rise of the Male Soprano? Michael Maniaci has a fight on his hands. In the world of baroque opera he’s a young singer who seems to have it ...

Composed originally for a Vienna premiere in 1864 the present version of Les FÈes du Rhin, or Die Rheinnixen, was published in the last few years as part of the critical edition of the complete works ...

As I wrote in my review of the production, ‘her terrible bereavement, at first quietly accepted, resurges with terrifying force when … she recognises the tiny red cap that she knitted for him. Never ...

Reason is Irrelevant. This Alice in Wonderland is anything but prim. It’s zany, anarchic and subversive, and also hilariously funny.

“The operas of Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) mark a significant contribution to twentieth-century music and theatre. Opera was Prokofiev’s preferred genre; not counting juvenile and unfinished works, ...

Bavarian State Opera’s Festival 2007 on June 30th.

Staged in conjunction with Joffrey Ballet Chicago, the production features both dance and singing. Since Oropesa sings with silver tones and moves as gracefully as a dancer, she is a natural for the ...

So wrote David Blake in an essay, ‘Recollections’, published in 1995 in Hanns Eisler: A Miscellany, of which Blake was editor.

Except for the music he composed for William Shakespeareís play A Midsummer Nightís Dream, though, Mendelssohnís other dramatic works are relatively unknown. The catalog of his works includes ...

compilation is at once a celebration of Mahler’s enduring music in sound ...