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Höchste Lust: DF Reviews TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at the Philadelphia Orchestra

I’d never imagined spending 10 hours with TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, but such is the magic of this event.

A musically strong, theatrically questionable production closes the Opera Philadelphia season.

It’s not BOMBSHELL … It’s just a bomb.

Morley and Moore in a mixed program, brilliantly conceived and superbly performed.

Emma Griffin’s “Go big or go home” production scores a win for Bernstein’s musical/operetta.

The new musical starring Idina Menzel, ostensibly a paean to a back-to-nature life, could hardly feel more manufactured and synthetic.

Rebecca Frecknall’s gripping staging makes new a play many of us feel we know inside out.

The American debut of a truly great singer and recitalist is cause for rejoicing.

Audra McDonald is Broadway’s latest Rose in George C. Wolfe’s re-conceived GYPSY.

Lucy Kirkwood’s riveting and unsettling play is both fresh and a welcome return to old-school playmaking.