reclining standards

Short Take: DF Looks at Sondheim’s Assassins at the Arden Theatre

Director Terry Nolen’s second production of this Sondheim work is an intriguingly different take on the piece.

Unholy Wars is most an opera when it is, with “Lascia ch’io pianga,” actually an opera.

In sum: not a perfect Simon Boccanegra—is there such a thing?—but a grand and often great one.

In 90 minutes, Rene Orth’s riveting work gives us everything we could want in a new opera.

Composer and lyricist Adam Guettel’s return to the theater impresses but divides our critics.

The soprano arrived at Carnegie Hall on May 31 with something to prove.

Francois Girard’s Holländer sits on the Met’s cavernous stage as a dull gray mass.

Sharon’s reordering is the boldest aspect of his production, and for me it’s effective.

Doug Wright’s new biographical dramadey, seems at once intimately familiar with and entirely alien to its subject.

At all of these vocal contests, I ask myself the same question: What are the judges looking for?