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• The Undoing of Women? Pasatieri and Poulenc at Opera Manhattan

  

  The ambitious Opera Manhattan Repertory Theatre is filling this weekend with a triple bill of dramas for "women on the verge." The project pairs two shorter... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Ernani: Ogni Cor Serba Un Mistero

  

  Verdi's Ernani, a politically provocative opera which enjoyed great popular success in the years following its 1844 premiere, exists today only on the fringes o... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Operatic Duels, Showdowns and Face-offs

  As even I was compelled to notice, there was a sporting event this past weekend which involved many of my neighbors (not to say much of the country) in... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Tragic Women and Sexy Ladies: Susan Graham at Carnegie Hall

  

  The recital which Susan Graham brought to Carnegie Hall last night united a wide variety of moods and musical styles around famous female figures from... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Rienzi: Sage An, Hast Deine Sendung Du Vollbracht?

  

  Opera Orchestra of New York: Chauvet, Matos, Storey (c) AP PhotoWagner's 1842 opera Rienzi is a heady cocktail of medieval history and political idealism, shake... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Götterdämmerung: So Gut Und Schlimm Es Geh'

  

  In a world where the gods don't matter, why should we care about their downfall? In the last installment of his Ring, Robert Lepage has banished the gods to... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Le Roi Et Le Fermier: Il Ne Faut S'étonner De Rien

  

  The forces of Opera Lafayette are currently giving "Le roi et le fermier," Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's 1762 opera, its "modern world... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Not Just Broadway's Lullaby: Five Borough Songbook

  

  The Five Boroughs Music Festival is an undertaking to which I'm admittedly partial. With (mostly) young artists, a wide-ranging repertoire, and lots of... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Poisoned Kiss: Vaughan Williams at the Bronx Opera

  

  Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived in an enchanted forest a maiden whose name was Tormentilla. She was placed there by her father Dipsacus, a... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Reading List: Don Juan in Hankey, PA

  

  Gentle Readers, rejoice, for I am going to review a book which is actually new, authored by none other than Gale Martin of Operatoonity. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• The Enchanted Island: Insubstantial Pageant

  

  To their credit, the creators of The Enchanted Island (in contrast to publicity materials) do not pretend that it is a baroque pastiche. The work would be bette... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Nights at the Opera: 2011

  Time blurs strangely together towards the end of the academic term, and I can't quite believe it's late December already... but I seem to have seen my last oper... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Rataplan, Rataplan! Fille Du Régiment Returns to Met

  

  Machaidze, Brownlee, ensemble (c) Met Opera/Marty Sohl The good old Twenty-First is back at the Met this winter, lifting spirits as always. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Harmonie Du Soir: Karita Mattila at Carnegie Hall

  

  Karita Mattila's Saturday night recital offered an evocative selection of sensual art songs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (full... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Quello Freme, Questa è Pazza: Barber of Seville at Amore Opera

  

  After Mozart and Mercadante earlier this autumn, Amore Opera's "Fall Figaro Fest" is concluding with the beginning of the story, and Rossini's indefatigable... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Sunday Special: Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland

  This Sunday Special, Gentle Readers, is brought to you thanks to my Aunt Dorothy, through whom I have discovered a Berlin-based vocal ensemble reinventing... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Le Veau D'or Est Toujours Debout: Faust at the Met

  

  For Faust's much-touted return to the Met stage, the Met orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin gave Gounod's score of their best, and brought out the best in it.... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Die Alten, Bösen Lieder: Ian Bostridge at Carnegie Hall

  

  Bostridge; photo (c) Simon Fowler Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès created an extraordinarily rich, revelatory program at Carnegie Hall on Monday evening... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Goethe, Gounod, and Faust

  

  "French composers love those German sufferers that then they can bring to joy." --Jonas Kaufmann (Opera News interview, 2011) "Die unbegreiflich hohen Werke /... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Io Spero Ancora: La Bohème Charms Again

  

  Cafe scene from Act II, Susanna Phillips as Musetta (c) Cory Weaver/Metropolitan Opera Despite disappointment at last year's La Bohème, I went again on... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA