REVIEW: Elle Is Other People: Ne Quittez Pas at O18 / Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
The two-part evening starts arch, but ends in triumph.
REVIEW: Grand Tourists: Duet Recital at O18/Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
In a delightful song program, Ashley Robillard and Siena Licht Miller show exceptional promise.
REVIEW: Touch the Sky: Sky on Swings at O18/Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
It would be hard to imagine a better metaphor for O18 than this poignant new opera.
REVIEW: Thank You for Smoking: Opera Philadelphia’s Carmen (for Parterre Box)
How do you like your Carmen? The role – and Bizet’s opera – contain multitudes.
REVIEW: A Quiet Place—Leonard Bernstein’s Chilly Winter Garden
Without its companion pieced, Trouble in Tahiti, this difficult late work feels like half of an opera.
REVIEW: In Opera Philadelphia’s Written on Skin, Music and Theater Triumph
But why isn’t there more light and clarity in this moody but muddy work about illuminated manuscripts?
O Festival Diary—Day V: The Wake World Is O17’s Glamorous Swan Song
David Hertzberg’s opera is dramatically pretentious, musically gorgeous, and very much An Event.
O Festival Diary—Day IV, Part II: War Stories
A sometimes-awkward evening that delivers in Lembit Beecher’s one-act premiere opera.
O Festival Diary—Day IV, Part I: Sondra Radvanovsky in Recital
One of today’s top divas provided glamour and high-wattage vocalism.
O Festival Diary—Day II: In O17’s Die Zauberflöte, the Magic is in the Technology
This imaginative, animated staging dazzles in some ways and comes up short in others.
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