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 […]
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.
