Music

O Festival Diary—Day V: The Wake World Is O17’s Glamorous Swan Song

David Hertzberg’s opera is dramatically pretentious, musically gorgeous, and very much An Event.

A sometimes-awkward evening that delivers in Lembit Beecher’s one-act premiere opera.

One of today’s top divas provided glamour and high-wattage vocalism.

This imaginative, animated staging dazzles in some ways and comes up short in others.

This witty collage of theatrical ideas, superbly staged and performed, sets a high standard.

Opera Philadelphia’s innovative festival brings works old and new to venues across the city.

At the Met, Carsen and company reduce metaphor to melodrama.

A fine cast, expert conducting, and beautiful designs are hallmarks of Opera Philadelphia’s production.

Every entertaining minute is awash in excess in a show that practically defines “guilty pleasure.”

A beautiful production and a reminder of what brought many of us to opera in the first place.