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 […]
The Chocolate Soldier (Concert Operetta Theater, March 2015)
By the time I was of listening age (that is, in my early teens, around 1970), operetta performances, at least in the […]
Ariadne auf Naxos (Curtis Opera Theatre / Opera Philadelphia: Perelman Theater)
Every time I immerse myself in Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Ariadne auf Naxos (and I do, often – decades ago, I even wrote […]
DF Reviews Lady, Be Good! (Encores, New York, February 2015)
Encores Musicals in Concert opened their current season – the 22nd, if I’m counting correctly – with exactly the kind of show […]
DF London/Paris Report — Un Ballo in Maschera (Covent Garden, 18 December 2014)
After our three-day jaunt to Paris, Simon and I returned to London, where we initially had no plans for music or theatre […]
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