Friday, August 16, 2013

BWW Reviews: 'Bravo!' FIGARO and Ivan Fischer's Budapest Festival Orchestra at Mostly Mozart by Richard Sasanow

From its earliest days, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival has included opera among its offerings, although I recall no production being quite so acclaimed as Iván Fischer's DON GIOVAN…

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 02:44PM
Friday, August 2, 2013

BWW Reviews: Mozart and Beethoven Duke It Out at Lincoln Center's 'Mostly Mozart' Opening. Guess Who Wins? by Richard Sasanow

Is Lincoln Center planning to change its summertime schedule from “Mostly Mozart” to “Basically Beethoven”? If so, they couldn't have picked a better concert to put the point across …

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 07:27PM
Thursday, July 18, 2013

BWW Reviews: Met Recital in Central Park is a Tour of the High Cs (and Higher) by Richard Sasanow

When last heard on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, mezzo Isabel Leonard and soprano Erin Morley were a couple of nuns on their way to the guillotine in LES DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES. Thi…

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 05:49PM
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

BWW Reviews: A French Kiss for Verdi with LES VEPRES SICILIENNES at The Caramoor Festival by Richard Sasanow

The Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY said “Bon anniversaire, Joseph Vert”--that's “Happy Birthday, Giuseppe Verdi” in French--on Saturday night, with a performance of LES VEPRES SICI…

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 08:44PM
Thursday, May 9, 2013

BWW Reviews: GOTTERDAMMERUNG Brings Another Twilight to the Met's RING by Richard Sasanow

Katarina Dalayman is one of a handful of top Wagnerian sopranos in the world, but for the first act of the Met's GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, the climax of the Met's second 'Ring' cycle of the season,…

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 10:29PM
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

BWW Reviews: The Met's Stirring Production of Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES is 'the Anti-Machine' by Richard Sasanow

What would the Metropolitan Opera (and its audiences) do without its production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES, which opened for the season with Saturday's matinee, May 4? As…

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 04:43PM
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Monty Python Meets Offenbach in City Opera's Daffy LA PERICHOLE by Richard Sasanow

New York City Opera's production of Jacques Offenbach's LA PERICHOLE feels right at home at City Center, home of the "Encores!" series, which reintroduces audiences to lesser known Broadway …

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 10:42PM
Monday, April 15, 2013

De Niese Spectacularly Subs for Ailing Dessay in Met's New Giulio Cesare by Richard Sasanow

The groans were audible--no, powerful--when the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Peter Gelb stepped out in front of the curtain on the second night of the company's new David McVicar pro…

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 06:20AM
Friday, March 29, 2013

BWW Interviews: Soprano Diana Damrau Finds Verdi's 'Lost One' by Richard Sasanow

Soprano Diana Damrau--star of Michael Mayer's acclaimed 'Ratpack' RIGOLETTO--talks about creating her role debut as Violetta in the Metropolitan Opera's Willy Decker production of LA TRAVIAT…

SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 11:22PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards