(Credit: Mark Brenner) For the second time in only a few months, I find myself reviewing a production I have seen before where I was initially very critical of what I perceived to be a weak production, creatively, but inexplicably having a change of heart the second time around. So as not to face accusations of hypocrisy or worse, senility; {…}
(Photo ©2024 Camilla Greenwell) In a recent interview with director Damiano Michieletto at the Venice production of “The Tales of Hoffmann,” he said: “At its heart it is a journey into fantasy. It is opera fantastique, after all!” One definition of the French word fantastique is: a term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by {…}
Tête à Tête, the U.K.’s “outlandish opera company,” has announced its wider 2022 season with events scheduled in London, Cornwall, and Newcastle ahead of the 15th iteration of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in Sept. 2022. In May, the company will present “Odysseys,” six brand-new mini-operas in which unexpected protagonists—from the metamorphosis of a butterfly to a zombie—embark on {…}
