Review: DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE, London Coliseum
by Gary Naylor
- Mar 22, 2024
English National Opera closes its troubled, but successful, 2023-24 season with Bartok's curious compelling slice of psychodrama beautifully played by its orchestra
Andris Nelsons Returns to Conduct Final Five Programs of the BSO's 2023�"2024 Season
by Stephi Wild
- Mar 22, 2024
The final five programs of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2023–2024 season, led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons, celebrate the commissioning legacy of Serge Koussevitzky, highlight some of the greatest living composers of our time, and bring acclaimed soloists back to Symphony Hall, including Yuja Wang and Hilary Hahn.
Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE, London Coliseum
by Alexander Cohen
- Feb 29, 2024
It’s odd to watch an opera where the actual opera is an afterthought. At least that’s how it feels watching Simon McBurney’s The Magic Flute. His revival production sizzles with circus spectacle, high tech pageantry, and boundary breaking chutzpah. But underneath it all you’ll be hard pressed to find the warmth of a beating heart.
San Francisco Opera Announces 2024�"25 Season Including CARMEN, LA BOHÈME and More
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 20, 2024
The 2024–25 Season includes six mainstage opera productions along with concert presentations including a one-night-only performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on October 26, honoring the work's 200th anniversary and, in the summer of 2025, a special Pride Concert celebrating San Francisco's LGBTQIA+ community.
Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green Wins Met's 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award
by Stephi Wild
- Apr 20, 2023
The Metropolitan Opera has named bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green the winner of the 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award, the second time that Green has received this honor. Previously, Green shared the award with four other artists in 2021, the season that had been canceled due to the pandemic.
Review: DON CARLO Returns to the Met, This Time in Italian
by Richard Sasanow
- Nov 13, 2022
Last season, the company gave its first presentation of the French version (that’s the one called DON CARLOS, with a final S to his first name), in the five-act version that lasted almost 5 hours. This year, we’re back to Italian, under Carlo Rizzi’s firm baton, in one of a number of versions (this one running about 4 hours) of DON CARLO, which uses shortcuts to tell the story elements deleted with the excision of the first act (usually referred to as “the Fontainebleau scene”).
Verdi's DON CARLO to Return to the Metropolitan Opera in November
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Oct 25, 2022
Verdi’s sweeping historical tragedy Don Carlo will return to the Metropolitan Opera for nine performances of the four-act Italian version November 3–December 3, 2022, following the successful company premiere of the five-act French version last season.
Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change For RIGOLETTO
by Stephi Wild
- Oct 25, 2022
Canadian bass-baritone John Relyea, who just ended a highly acclaimed run as Boris Ismailov in the Met's production of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, will also be singing the role of the Grand Inquisitor in all of the Met's upcoming performances of Verdi's Don Carlo, which opens on November 3.
Review: That Was No LADY, in Mtsensk or Anywhere Else, But Boy Was She Spectacular!
by Richard Sasanow
- Oct 10, 2022
Afraid of Shostakovich? Don’t be. LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK is a glory to behold, in Graham Vick’s knockout production, designed and costumed by Paul Brown, staged this time by Paula Suozzi, with Ron Howell’s choreography. And there were times when the music, with the Met orchestra under the firm, smart baton of Keri-Lynn Wilson, almost sounded like, yes, Puccini, while it was clearly expressionist as well.
Yulia Matochkina to Replace Anita Rachvelishvili in Metropolitain Opera's DON CARLO
by Blair Ingenthron
- Oct 5, 2022
Yulia Matochkina will make her Met role debut as Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, replacing Anita Rachvelishvili. Russian mezzo-soprano Yulia Matochkina, who made her Met debut last season as Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto, has previously sung Eboli at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and the New National Theatre in Tokyo.
Keri-Lynn Wilson to Conduct a Met Revival of LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Sep 21, 2022
Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson, following a triumphant tour leading the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra last summer, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for six performances beginning September 29.
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