reclining standards

Some Unholy Wars — DF Reviews Festival O23 (for Parterre Box)

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?

What do you see when you look at Into the Woods? The musical might serve as a theatrical Rorschach test.