Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook By Anthony Tommasini In a late scene of Mozart’s “Zauberflöte,” the hardy bird catcher Papageno, despairing that he may never have a ...
Director Melanie Helton’s key to MSU Opera Theatre's production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is bold color. As she has studied the opera, Helton said she feels the opera’s themes of good and evil, ...
ENO’s shortest-lived but also (many of us think) best Music Director campaigned from the start for direct communication with the audience, in that magic triangle between composer, performers and ...
This week, Chicago’s being treated to dueling performances of Mozart by the city’s two major opera companies. For the fan of Mozart’s unfailingly beautiful music, these are two strong productions that ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (May 19-June 10), one of opera's most beloved ...
Opera-Lytes just finished their run of RUDDIGORE, OR THE WITCHES CURSE, an operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan, and you can read my review below. Of course, the very British G&S operettas are sung in the ...
As a highlight of the ongoing Shanghai International Arts Festival, a new production of Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte will ...
Lorenzo Da Ponte, who wrote the librettos for “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Don Giovanni,” and “Così Fan Tutte,” has been a troubling item for Mozart scholars. Almost everyone agrees that Da Ponte ...
The Los Angeles Opera will present a live simulcast of its opening night of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 23, in high-definition video from nine cameras at the Dorothy ...
THUMBNAIL SKETCH: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO recounts a single day of farce – the wedding day of two servants, Figaro, servant to the Count, and his bride-to-be Susanna, servant to the Countess. As they ...
An updated Mozart classic, set in modern-day Beverly Hills, tackles race and immigration issues. By Jordan Riefe ‘White Lotus’ and the Ultra-Luxurious Thailand Hotels That Stood in for the “Best ...