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This updating of Verdi’s La traviata by director Tom Cairns and designer Hildegard Bechtler adds little to the opera, but neither does it detract. The
It is very hard lately to get worked up about 14th century Swiss oppression by the Austrians. I recently realized that it wasn’t merely the
Stuffed peacocks, mirrored floors strewn with flower petals, mirrored walls that alter perspective, background arches that can serve as either monastic or regal, the inevitable
If ever there were a story that deserves cinematic and operatic treatment, it is Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain. A story of impossible, forbidden (read: homosexual)
There have been several fine audio-only performances of this, Bellini’s Romeo and Juliet story, with casts that include Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko, Vesselina Kasarova
A year or so ago Oehms released a CD version of this opera from the same source that was recorded in 2011; this video version
One might speculate as to why this 2008 performance of Carmen from Zurich has just been released, but frankly, it is not quite worth the
There used to be an old line about leaving the theater humming the scenery; often it applied to Franco Zeffirelli-like productions–lavish, flowery, big-boned, visually melodious
Despite Stefan Herheim’s concept and staging for this 2013 Salzburg Festival Die Meistersinger, which is sometimes confounding and in many ways too fantastical, viewers/listeners won’t
John Luther Adams writes music that lacks any trace of human feeling. It is “process” music–cold, implacable, but often very beautiful in its way, as
