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Reviews, Stage Reviews

Death of Classical & Prototype Festival 2026 Review: Tiergarten

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(Photo: Kevin Condon) Death of Classical (DOC), in partnership with PROTOTYPE Festival, presented “Tiergarten” on January 16, 2026, at Cullen Hall, behind St. Paul’s Church on Carroll Street in Brooklyn, New York. This one-night-only, very intimate, cabaret performance featured historical landscapes of music, movement, politics, ideologies, and, most importantly, unabashed entertainment. Founder of DOC, Andrew Ousley, conceived, wrote, and directed {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Florida Grand Opera 2025 Review: Silent Night

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​ Florida Grand Opera (FGO) opened its 85th season with a heartfelt reminder that opera can be community-driven, emotional, musically accessible, and relevant to the present moment. The atrium was pleasantly crowded before the opening performance of “Silent Night” by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell; a wide spectrum of glamorous attendees sipped drinks from the bar and watched singers from {…}

IndieOpera

Counter Codex to Present ‘Ariadne in America’

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(Photo credit: Austin Ruffer) Counter codex will present the world premiere of its new multimedia production “Ariadne in America” on Oct. 10 – 11, 2025, in New York City. The production will star countertenor Jordan Rutter-Covatto as Ari, inspired by the mythic Ariadne, alongside actor Marty Keiser as Ted, a character drawn from Theseus. They will be joined by pianist {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

New York Philharmonic 2024-25 Review: Also sprach Zarathustra

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On Jan. 7, the New York Philharmonic concluded its four concert performances of Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra.” The concert cycle featured Strauss’s famed tone poem, Berlioz’s Song Cycle “Les nuits d’été” and a 2021 piece by Samy Moussa entitled “Elysium.” The result of the concert was a mismatched evening featuring some very inspired playing. “Elysium” The concert opened with Moussa’s {…}

Special Features

3 Christmas-Themed Operas From Around the World

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Photo Credit: Hindemith Foundation/Blonay, Switzerland Christmas is a time of celebration for many people for many different reasons. Whether someone is religious or not, the Holiday season is a great time to connect with many of classical music’s absolute seasonal favorites like Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet, ‘The Nutcracker,’ Menotti’s ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors,’ and Handel’s ‘Messiah.’  It is also, however, {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Renée Fleming, Erin Morley, Jakub Józef Orliński, Joyce DiDonato, & Julie Roset Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will experience numerous debut albums, a few complete operas, and some special choral works. Here is a look at the new releases. Orfeo ed Euridice Erato releases Jakub Józef Orliński’s interpretation of Gluck’s masterpiece. Recorded in Orliński’s native city, Warsaw, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Maryland Opera 2023-24 Review: Tosca

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(Photo credit Madeline Grey) Lacking public monies common in Europe, opera becomes ever harder to produce in the USA, but its enthusiasts are a determined lot. The Old Line State used to enjoy a typical American setup for presenting opera, an established twentieth-century organization, the Baltimore Opera Company, situated in a sizable venue in Maryland’s largest city, the Lyric Opera {…}

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The Atlanta Opera Review 2024: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Photo credit: Raftermen “Toi toi toi, y’all,” intones the attractive, Southern-inflected t-shirt at The Atlanta Opera’s pop-up gift shop. An apt tagline for a company having outgrown regional status, still honoring its roots in this de facto capital of the American South. Like Atlanta—now the sixth most populous metropolitan area in the United States, having recently edged past Philadelphia and {…}

News

The Atlanta Opera Announces 2024 96-Hour Opera Festival

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The Atlanta Opera has announced its 2024 96-Hour Opera Festival. The event will feature the world premiere of “Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier),” which won the 2022 competition. The opera will be staged by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and conducted by Chaowen Ting. It stars Kevin Thompson (Church Jenkins), Minka Wiltz (Odella), Andrew Gilstrap (Mayor John Johns), Tiffany Uzoije (Butter), and Marnie Breckenridge. The opera’s {…}