DF on Andy: A Popera (Review and Podcast Link)
As arts collaborations go, these seem like strange bedfellows indeed: the Bearded Ladies, Philadelphia’s gender-bending, satiric, outré, and greatly beloved theatre troupe […]
Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (Opera Philadelphia, June 2015)
Often when I see a new opera, I wonder about its future. Even some very intriguing contemporary works seem not to have […]
Don Carlo (Opera Philadelphia, May 2015)
Watching the final, marvelous performance of Opera Philadelphia’s Don Carlo, I thought about the company’s extraordinary rise to a new standard, under […]
Ariadne auf Naxos (Curtis Opera Theatre / Opera Philadelphia: Perelman Theater)
Every time I immerse myself in Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Ariadne auf Naxos (and I do, often – decades ago, I even wrote […]
DF Reviews Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Opera Philadelphia (October 2014)
In 1816, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia survived a disastrous premiere to become one of the most beloved works in the repertoire […]
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