Read capsule reviews of some of the biggest shows of the season, including "Witch Hat Atelier," "Daemons of the Shadow Realm, ...
Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence,” a powerful and kaleidoscopic depiction of mass violence and its aftermath, has arrived at the ...
Luca Guadagnino is defending Timothée Chalamet following his viral comments while opening opera 'The Death of Klinghoffer' in ...
We also witness Kosky developing the intense imagination which powered his Rheingold and Walküre. That his wise, compassionate ancient Erda would be with us throughout was a given, but not how he'd ...
Five years on, Royal Opera House’s revival of Oliver Mears’ production has lost none of its edge. If anything, it now feels even more assured in its brutality. Back then, the audience wore masks; now, ...
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In David Henry Hwang’s prescient 1988 play “M. Butterfly,” the character of Song Liling, a beautiful Chinese opera singer and spy, deftly laid out the case against Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 opera, ...
San Diegans may think they know the opera “Carmen,” but the San Diego Opera production of Georges Bizet’s tragedy that opened a three-day run Friday at the San Diego Civic Theatre is filled with ...
Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s (MOT) own production was as intentional in design, fostering a gentle atmosphere with a cozy cream-colored corner outfitted with warm string lights just outside of the ...
Returning from the dead, an aspiration devoutly to be wished by the living and the bereaved, permeates opera and theater. Billy Bigelow gets to come back in “Carousel.” In “The Flying Dutchman,” the ...
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “The Silent Serenade,” written in the 1940s, was given its English-language, United States premiere by Mannes Opera. By Seth Colter Walls The rediscovery of music by Erich ...
Jones disappoints after her riveting work on INO's Rosemary Kennedy opera Least Like the Other. Her visuals, in league with chameleonic lighting design by Lotta Hammarstrand, are often striking but ...