Geneva's new "Parsifal" production escaped the boos heard after several recent Richard Wagner opera premieres at the Grand Theatre, with a richly colored staging accompanying music that was at times so sensuous the allegory of Christian salvation ...
Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet" was last performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1897, and it's easy to see why more than a century passed before its revival. /
The New York premieres of Bernstein's "A Quiet Place" and Stephen Schwartz's "Seance on a Wet Afternoon," the world stage premiere of John Zorn's "La Machine de l'etre" and the U.S. stage premiere of Morton Feldman's "Neither" highlight New York ...
As something of a Gilbert and Sullivan sceptic I was looking forward to seeing how Opera North was going to handle the partnership's spoof melodrama Ruddigore . /
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta "The Pirates of Penzance," a stage adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," "Love's Labour's Lost," "Julius Caesar" and "Henry IV Part 2" highlight Oregon ...