REVIEW: Total Ellipse: The Spellbinding Denis & Katya at Festival O19 (for Parterre Box)
This superb chamber-sized two-hander has a monumental, shattering impact.
REVIEW: Tales of the Citrus: Love for Three Oranges at Festival O19 (for Parterre Box)
Once again, the audacious Opera Philadelphia folks are playing without a net.
REVIEW: Riding on Empty: Two One-Act Operas at Curtis (for Parterre Box)
As a cohesive evening of music drama, this ambitious double bill doesn’t quite add up.
REVIEW: Pigment of the Imagination: La Bohème at Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
A wonderful musical performance, hampered by a misguided production.
REVIEW: They Love a Piano: Don Giovanni at Curtis/Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
What R. B. Schlather’s visually arresting production has to do with the opera remains a mystery.
REVIEW: Dream a Little ‘Dream’: Britten’s Midsummer at Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
Robert Carsen’s 28-year-old production comes to America. It was worth the wait.
REVIEW: Glamour, Reconceptualized: the Final Day of O18 (for Parterre Box)
Two final events at O18 sum up the wonders of this extraordinary festival.
REVIEW: When Queens Collide: Queens of the Night at O18 (for Parterre Box)
Blythe’s virtuosity actually anchors the show to opera; Martha not so much.
REVIEW: Dramatic A.R.C.: Glass Handel at O18 / Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
Imagine you are at Disneyland, and there’s an Anthony Roth Costanzo ride.
REVIEW: Dark Shadows: Lucia di Lammermoor at O18 / Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
If only Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, a setting of Walter Scott’s gloomy novel in which the heroine is traded like a piece […]
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