Opera Review: Dialogues des Carmélites (Caramoor, July 2015)
Dialogues des Carmélites was (to me, at least) a surprising choice for Will Crutchfield’s Caramoor Opera. Poulenc’s masterpiece falls outside what the Festival […]
Opera Review: La Favorite at Caramoor (July 2
Last Saturday, I finally made it to the Opera Festival at Caramoor, something I’d long wanted to do, but the timing never […]
DF on “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and Carousel (WRTI Radio)
A week or two ago, I got a call from Meridee Duddleston, a news anchor and reporter at WRTI-FM, a local classical […]
Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (Opera Philadelphia, June 2015)
Often when I see a new opera, I wonder about its future. Even some very intriguing contemporary works seem not to have […]
Company (Bucks County Playhouse)
I discovered Company in 1970, shortly after its Broadway premiere, and the show had a profound effect on me. Listening to the […]
Passion (Arden Theatre, May 2015
O, Passion – How I have tried to love you! Before I get to the Arden’s elegant, beautifully realized production – which almost changed my mind […]
Cecilia Bartoli in West Side Story — Why Not?
It was announced last week in the NY Times and other sources that in Summer 2016, Cecilia Bartoli will play Maria in […]
Don Carlo (Opera Philadelphia, May 2015)
Watching the final, marvelous performance of Opera Philadelphia’s Don Carlo, I thought about the company’s extraordinary rise to a new standard, under […]
Leonard Bernstein’s Mass (Philadelphia Orchestra, May 2015)
Sometimes, a cluster of events come along that really illustrates the strength of Philly’s current arts scene. Last week, I saw Edward […]
Dorothea Röschmann and Mitsuko Uchida (Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, April 2015)
I had the good fortune this week to attend one of the finest Lieder recitals I’ve heard in many years, by soprano […]
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