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Grand Passion: Rigoletto at Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)

The collective audience sigh of joy that greeted the opening chords signaled success from the start.

I felt a surge of joy learning the Festival O will return in September.

Opera Philadelphia returns to the stage with an honorable, if not entirely convincing, mixed program.

Two singers at the top of their game in music as punishing as it is pretty.

Opera is back, baby, and it’s good to be home!

You will not soon forget David T. Little’s harrowing, riveting monodrama, nor Johnathan McCullough’s performance.

As Julia Child, Jamie Barton is clearly having the time of her life.

I’ve heard starrier performances, but none that made a more powerful case for this masterwork.

Festival O19 ended on a sweet note, connecting Opera Philadelphia with the city and our musical future.

In this intriguing but confounding theater piece , creator Joseph Keckler wants to have his cake and eat it too.