One of the benefits of reviewing operas is the opportunity to take guests whose experience of opera may be comparatively recent, and whose reactions are refreshingly unbound by preconceptions. At the ...
Bampton Classical Opera is set to present Salieri’s “La Iocandiera” this fall. The opening performance of the production is set for July 18 and 19 at The Deanery Garden in Bampton, Oxfordshire. That ...
The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has announced a two-year contract extension for music director Kazuki Yamada. “I am extremely happy to be renewing my contract with the City of Birmingham Symphony ...
NEXT Ensemble is set to perform at the Peabody Institute on Feb. 14, 2025. The showcase, titled “Songs from Inside” will feature the “Canti di Prionia” by Luigi Dallapiccola and “Neither Persons Nor ...
Eighteen years is far too long to go without recording an opera like Kaija Saariaho’s “Adriana Mater.” The Finnish composer’s 2006 follow-up to “L’Amour de loin” is a work of both hypnotic allure and ...
(Photo Credit Guy Davies) Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” directed by Sarah Giles for Opera Australia (OA) was performed in three Australian states, before it arrived at the Sydney Opera House in the ...