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News, Reviews, Stage Reviews

Pocket Opera 2025-26 Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Shakespeare would be proud. Benjamin Britten would cheer. Pocket Opera must celebrate, for its production of Britten’s Opera “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was a true success. Pocket Opera’s Chamber Opera Company, founded by Donald Pippin and now led by Nicolas A. Garcia, gave us all that delights and stirs in Britten’s musical version of Shakespeare’s famous comedy. At the Thomas {…}

News, Season Announcement

Nadine Sierra, Louise Alder, Magdalena Kožená, John Holiday, Benjamin Appl, Alice Coote, Allan Clayton & Gerald Finley Highlight Wigmore Hall’s 2026-27 Season

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Wigmore Hall has announced its 2026-7 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Nadine Sierra and Bryan Wagorn open the season with a gala. Performance Date: Sept. 8, 2026 The Gesualdo Six perform “English Motets.” Performance Date: Sept. 9, 2026 Il Pomo d’Oro and Il Pomo d’Oro Choir perform in concert. Performance Date: Sept. 13, 2026 Alice Coote {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: A 1960s Thriller Born Anew in Stephen Schwartz’s ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’

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(Photo: David Bazemore) Now that 2025 has come and gone, and we are facing a new year of possibilities, it’s best to take a quick review of the stories we’ve explored together in the last years before 2026 really begins. While there has been a good deal of historical articles like the cinematic presence of Maria Callas and Wagner, there’s {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Carnegie Hall 2025-26 Review: Emily – No Prisoner Be

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(Photo: Chris Lee) A hush fell over the hall before a single note was sung. “Shh…” a pre-show hush repeated at intervals as the audience chattered, “Shh…” The sound was barely there—more suggestion than speech—but it was enough to draw the audience into a sense of peacefulness, suspended between listening and disbelief. Is it real? Is someone whispering “Shh…” or {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Jason Duika on Being a Verdian Baritone & His Upcoming ‘Rigoletto’ Debut

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(Photo: @MontePhoteaux) Jason Duika has been steadily making a name for himself as an up-and-coming American Verdi Baritone, having sung with over ten companies in the US to critical acclaim. He has sung over 20 operatic roles professionally, including the title role of Verdi’s “Nabucco,” in October of 2019 with West Bay Opera, in California, where the reviews said, “Baritone {…}

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 {…}