They Are The Champions: DF Covers AVA’s Giargiari Competition 2022
This is likely the best Giargiari Bel Canto competition year in my experience, evidenced in several important ways.
Street Scene: DF and CK review Leopoldstadt (for Parterre Box)
Stuffed with Stoppardian cleverness, there’s far too much in LEOPOLDSTADT to register with specificity.
It’s Going to Cost You: CK Reviews The Cost of Living (for Parterre Box)
Martyna Majok Pulitzer Prize-winning play overflows with complexity. It begins with the title.
REVIEW: A Divided Duty: Rossini’s Otello at O22 (for Parterre Box)
In bel canto opera, virtuosic singing IS the drama. Accept that, and O22’s OTELLO pays off thrillingly.
‘Big D’ Energy: David and Cameron Review Most Happy at Williamstown and Sound of Music at Glimmerglass
Two celebrated 1950s musicals get strikingly dissimilar festival productions this summer.
Stained Class: Lucia di Lammermoor at the Met (for Parterre Box)
The undisputed cause célèbre here — for better or worse — is director Simon Stone.
Trouble in River City: DF & CK Review Broadway’s The Music Man (for Parterre Box)
This high-gloss production trades on bland Americana at odds Meredith Willson’s sharply satirical, timeless show.
It Ain’t Easy Being Tween — David and Cameron Review Trevor (for Parterre Box)
This relentlessly upbeat musical about teen suicide raises the question: Is gay without irony even possible?
Lehman’s Terms: DF Reviews The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway (for Parterre Box)
The Lehman Trilogy had me in its thrall from the start. That’s not to say I endorse it wholeheartedly, though.
“That’s Why I Pulled the Trigger” — Our Critics Discuss A Woman’s Secret (for Parterre Box)
This now largely forgotten oddity from the great Nicholas Ray offers Gloria Grahame in two enticing modes.
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