CIM Opera Theater will present its grand season finale with Don Giovanni at Playhouse Square Not only is the company staging ...

CIM Opera Theater has revealed its season finale. The company is staging Mozart’s great Don Giovanni in the Mimi Ohio Theatre ...

This tired songfest starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga does nothing to enhance the master composer's reputation.

After the new staged version premieres April 11, in Pittsburgh, it heads to New York’s Corpus Christi Church for a ...

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) masterfully closes its 40th concert season, dubbed Forte, featuring ...

At the beginning of the Opera, she has her sights set on a famous ... On the plus side, swathes of recitative were mercifully scythed from the piece. While this may offend Handel obsessives ...

The NYS Baroque is an ensemble obsessed with authenticity. Their repertoire of European music is drawn from the Baroque era ...

Nor does the opera follow a direct, continuous line of development from ... requiring substantial amounts of recitative and demanding arias. Mezzo soprano Ann-Beth Solvang as Phèdre rose to the ...

The show is entertainment and education: as Lucy runs through the space opera she’s composed, she explains the key components of the art form in comical ways: the overture, the aria, the recitative, ...

Her opening recitative was slightly anonymous and “Casta diva” didn’t quite have the ethereal tension for its long lines, but the cadenza was perfect and from then on Grigorian was on form. Her ...