PARTERRE BOX

REVIEW: Pigment of the Imagination: La Bohème at Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)

A wonderful musical performance, hampered by a misguided production.

The sexiest moment on Broadway this season features a 73-year-old man and a single button.

At Classic Stage, this pallid imitation of Brecht & Weill meets a director with the same aesthetic.

Rodgers and Hart’s 1938 dance musical proves impossible to resuscitate.

Scott Ellis’s busy production puts Porter’s sublime musical between a rock and a hard place.

In their best moments, the mezzo and pianist Ted Sperling were near-ideal Bernstein-isti.

What R. B. Schlather’s visually arresting production has to do with the opera remains a mystery.

Fine voices and musical values here far outshine a cliché-ridden production.

Lerner and Loewe’s “lost” musical is a wonderful oddity that should be better known.

Robert Carsen’s 28-year-old production comes to America. It was worth the wait.