https://operawire.com/top-10-operas-to-see-during-winter-spring-2024/
Happy New Year! With 2024 in full swing, OperaWire is breaking down 10 opera productions that are must-sees for all opera lovers from around the world for the winter and spring season. Ali – La Monnaie – April 21, 2024 La Monnaie continues bringing new operas to the world and this year the company will bring the true story of {…}
https://operawire.com/wexford-festival-opera-2023-review-la-fille-du-regiment/
(Photo: Padraig Grant) The second of Wexford Festival’s pocket operas, Opera Beag, was a presentation of Donizetti’s opéra-comique “La Fille du régiment.” Operating on a low-budget and using only piano accompaniment, director Heather Hadrill was under no illusions of the difficulties involved. In her program notes, she stated “The challenge of pocket operas is to give as full a sense {…}
https://operawire.com/long-beach-opera-2018-19-review-the-central-park-five/
(photo: Keith Ian Polakoff) From the outset, let me say that Anthony Davis and Richard Wesley’s “The Central Park Five” is a powerful experience. I’ve said elsewhere that impressive new operas are created out of U.S. current affairs because U.S. current affairs play out on an operatic scale. Such is the case with this account of the trial and later {…}