Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere di Siviglia Salzburger Festspiele Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally...
Reviewer's rating One Song Thibault Elie 26/07/2022Few shows have ever sparked the audience of the Festival d’Avignon so passionately. Miet Warlop, a 44-year-old Belgian artist, and...
Reviewer's rating Aida אאידה Yael Shuv 28/06/2022“If my dream might come true! An army of brave men, led by me – victory, and the applause of...
Reviewer's rating Le Barbier de Séville Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/06/2022This season at the Opera Bastille nearly comes to its end with a refreshing production of Gioacchino Rossini’s opera buffa...
Reviewer's rating Alcina אלצ’ינה Yael Shuv 17/05/2022Alcina, written in 1735, is one of George Frideric Handel’s more popular operas – he composed 42 of them. Inspired...
Reviewer's rating Fraternité Rivka Jacobson 02/05/2022This is a fantasy tale. The location shifts within three distinct spaces on stage, yet the audience is privy to...
Reviewer's rating Les Précieuses Ridicules Pretentious Young Ladies Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 20/04/2022Is 2022 the year the Comédie Française goes camp? With Sébastien Pouderoux and Stéphane Varupenne’s new adaptation of Les Précieuses...
Reviewer's rating Le nozze di Figaro Yael Shuv 13/04/2022In Don Giovanni, Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte presented their famous hero as a sexual predator rather than...
Reviewer's rating The Barber of Seville Miho Uchida 11/03/2022Michael Shell’s production of The Barber of Seville contains more farces than usual, perhaps an attempt of the Atlanta Opera...