How to decode a Philip Glass opera? Perhaps the key is in not trying to, and simply immersing […]
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Based on a play by Friedrich Schiller, Verdi’s longest opera, Don Carlo, originally consisted of 5 acts and […]
Ah, the efficacy of a fist-brandishing curse! Imagine if vengeance could be yours just through the advocacy of […]
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera has always been hip to its audience. An acione teatrale, Orpheus & Euripides is […]
When it first premiered at the King’s Theatre in London, on April 4, 1739, Israel in Egypt was […]
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide opened on Broadway in 1956 and landed with a thud. Many think this might be […]
The reception to Plácido Domingo as he set out to conduct the opera was rousing, but it was […]
There are many erudite ways to determine whether an opera is good, but the most obvious may be how […]
On Saturday night, the Los Angeles Opera presented a concert of arias and opera scenes, featuring artists in […]
Offenbach’s incomplete tale about the doomed, fanciful affairs of drunk artist, Hoffman, is a profound statement on the […]
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