Friday, November 10, 2017
Lincoln Center's White Light Festival devoted a pair of evenings last week to a staged performance of Pergolesi's gorgeous hymn to Mary, STABAT MATER, directed by choreographer Jessica Lang …
SOURCE: at 02:13PMIt's Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1828 and the city's world-renowned anatomy schools are suffering from a cadaver shortage. Enter two immoral and highly industrious men--William Burke and William…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:10PMAtlanta may be landlocked, but a thrilling new sailing vessel came to town on Saturday night, in the new production of Wagner's DIE FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), at the Atlanta …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:10PMMonday, June 5, 2017
Fifteen compelling minutes of a new work doesn't always turn into an opera for all seasons, but a first-look at ELIZABETH CREEKevin Puts' and Mark Campbell's latest collaboration--came acros…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54PMJust after hearing the wonderfully well sung, semi-staged DAS RHEINGOLD at the NY Philharmonic, under departing Music Director Alan Gilbert, I saw the current Broadway revival of THE LITTLE …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54PMFriday, May 19, 2017
Since writing his first opera, SILENT NIGHT--the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for Music--with librettist Mark Campbell, composer Kevin Puts he has done two other operas, also with Campbell. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMIf satire is what closes on Saturday night (according to the great playwright and wit George S. Kaufman), then contemporary opera is usually not far behind. That is, unless it's Kevin Puts' …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Tenor Vittorio Grigolo always seems most at home on stage when he's living close to the edge--portraying a character who's losing control (or about to) of his emotions. It was true earlier t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06AMMonteverdi's L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA--THE CORONATION OF POPPEA--is considered the oldest opera in existence, but the version performed by Concerto Italiano at Carnegie Hall the other night…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05AMThe last time soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Javier Camarena appeared together at the Met, they reinvented the deadly Mary Zimmerman production of Bellini's LA SONNAMBULA and made it into so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
It didn't strike me until the lights were going down for the start of CARMEN last Thursday that this was the second night in a row that Met audiences were being transported to the same town …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:02AMIt's that time of the year again, when the flu season gives artistic administrators big headaches, trying to fill in the blanks when a headliner calls in sick. CARMEN's been a particular hea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:02AMThursday, January 12, 2017
The life and times of the spy-as-femme-fatale, Mata Hari, has always attracted the interest of film and stage artists. Now we have the Matt Marks-Paul Peers opera MATA HARIwhich opened New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMWhen I saw that New York City Opera was doing Leonard Bernstein's CANDIDE at the same time as New York's Prototype Festival--with Missy Mazzoli's BREAKING THE WAVES opening the festival of o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Take Puccini's LA BOHEME for granted at your peril. Sure, it has more gorgeous music per square inch than just about any other opera in the repertoire, but that doesn't mean that it always f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMFriday, November 25, 2016
When Massimo Cavelletti stepped on stage at the Met on November 16, it was a milestone: His 100th performance as Marcello, the baritone lead in LA BOHEME and part of the quartet at the opera…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMThursday, November 3, 2016
Art isn't easy, Stephen Sondheim wrote famously in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. Some artists, however, make it look simpler than others--like composer Kevin Puts, who won the Pulitzer Pri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52PMThe opera's called JENUFA, after the unfortunate young woman at the center of its story. But the star of the show at the Met's revival of this soaring musical masterpiece by Janacek is the K…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51PMReturning to Carnegie Hall this year after more than 25 years, the Richard Tucker Galacelebrating the current winner of the Richard Tucker Award, soprano Tamara Wilson, as well as the life a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51PMFriday, October 7, 2016
For the sheer magnitude of its singing, there hasn't been anything like the Met's ecstatic new production of TRISTAN UND ISOLDE in a very long time.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Quick: What film won the Golden Globe for Best Movie in 1997? It was THE ENGLISH PATIENT. But more important for composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek, the question is What film…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00PMFriday, August 5, 2016
South African soprano Elza van den Heever has long had a 'date' with Beethoven's Leonore, in his only completed opera FIDELIO. It wasn't exactly a blind date--she has known for years that, e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36AMSaturday, July 30, 2016
When South African soprano Elza van den Heever made her debut at the Met, as Elizabeth I in Donizetti's MARIA STUARDA, it was something that was totally memorable in every way--not only for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMIt probably would have been worth the trip to Bard SummerScape's production of Pietro Mascagni's IRIS--last heard at the Met in 1931--simply to make the acquaintance of soprano Talise Trevig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMTHE ILLUMINATED HEART, the opening program for this year's Mostly Mozart Festival--the 50th--at David Geffen Hall, may not have offered any new insights into the mind of the genius composer …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMFriday, June 17, 2016
Although the solstice doesn't officially appear for another week or so, the summer opera clock is already ticking. There's a plethora of performances going on all over New York City, in addi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47AMAlthough Kevin Newbury has directed operas by some of history's greatest composers--Donizetti and Bellini, Strauss and Mozart among them--he makes no bones about it: He prefers his composers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Earth Day has come and gone in 2016, but symphonic orchestra audiences in New York have lots to remember from this year's celebration, with performances of Mahler's DAS LIED VON DER ERDE (SO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:07AMDo you remember that cataclysmal moment in the Stanley Kubrick film of Stephen King's The Shining, when Jack Nicholson axes his way through the bathroom door and says, wild-eyed, Here's John…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:07AMMonday, April 18, 2016
When Broadway's Andrew Lippa was commissioned by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus to write I AM HARVEY MILK for its 35th anniversary in 2013, the hour-long work was a success from the star…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AM 
