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Jan 11, 2021

Prototype Festival 2021 Review: Ocean Body

I’m not a crowd person, so if someone told me I could have a private viewing of a world premiere, I’d welcome it. Sadly, this is one time I wish I had some company because Helga Davis, Shara Nova, and Mark DeChiazza’s “Ocean Body” multi-screen film and audio experience deserves an audience. The work is an arresting piece of beauty {…}

Dec 28, 2020

Palau de les Arts 2020-21 Review: La Cenerentola

This review belongs to the opening night on the 10th December “La Cenerentola” is one of Rossini’s most enduring works and has remained a fixture of the standard repertory since since its premiere in 1817. Based on the iconic Cinderella fairy tale, it has brought out the best in directors over the ages and singers who revel in Rossini’s joyous {…}

Dec 19, 2020

Teatro Real de Madrid 2020-21 Review: Rusalka, Cast B

This review belongs to the performance on the 24th of November 2020 The times when the quality of the first cast at the Teatro Real de Madrid was supposed to be “superior” to that of the second cast are long past. In more recent times we saw it in “Ballo in Maschera” last month with soprano Sondra Ravdanovsky in the {…}

Dec 11, 2020

Bayerische Staatsoper 2020-21 Review: La Bohème

The Bayerische Staatsoper showcased “La Boheme” as part of its Montagsstücke series. Asher Fisch led the Bayerischen Staatsöper Orchestra and a starry cast that included tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Rodolfo and soprano Rachel Willis-Sorensen as Mimì. The outcome was a performance that came to life on screen and renewed the spirit of opera lovers during a time of lockdown and {…}

Nov 28, 2020

Teatro Real de Madrid 2020-21 Review: Rusalka

(Credit: Javier del Real) This review belongs to the third performance of cast A on the 16th of November 2020 After an absence of nearly a hundred years, “Rusalka” returned to the stage of Teatro Real, with a new production directed by Christof Loy in co-production with Säschsische Sttaatsoper Dresden, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, {…}

Nov 6, 2020

English National Opera 2020 Review: La Bohème

(Credit: Lloyd Winters) The jumbotrons flash with bright colors and larger-than-life faces. The campervans are scattered across Alexandra Palace’s massive outdoor stage. I am transported to some bizzarro Coachella performed in suburban London. I pull my coat close around me as a pervasive English damp and an all-too familiar British wind cut through the desert festival scenes. The cars beginning {…}

Nov 5, 2020

Polish National Opera 2020-21 Review: Werther

As I was going to the first performance of “Werther,” a drame lyrique by Jules Massenet, I was glad that I would finally listen to Piotr Beczała live in this role, which he has performed for 25 years. Nevertheless, as I entered Teatr Wielki – the Polish National Opera, I was also a bit concerned that I was about to {…}

Oct 30, 2020

Teatro di San Carlo 2020-21 Review: La Rondine

(Credit: Luciano Romano) This review is for the performance on Oct. 16, 2020. “La Rondine” has been unjustly considered a minor work in the Puccini canon. With a plot that reminds many of “La Traviata,” the three-act work was meant to be an operetta but ended up as a hybrid melodrama, it’s confused stylistic identity, relegating it to rare performances. {…}

Oct 29, 2020

Tiroler Landestheater 2020-21 Review: The Lighthouse

(Photo: Birgit Gufler) In December 1900 the HMS Hesperus weighed anchor close to a group of small rocky outcrops known as the Flannan Islands, situated in the Outer Hebrides. It was reacting to a report from a passing ship that the island’s lighthouse was not shining its light. Receiving no signal from the lighthouse, the captain of the Hesperus sent {…}

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