Reviewer's Rating Education Becca Kaplan 16/03/2018What is left to fight for today, when everybody claims both that the world is burning, and that people are...
Reviewer's Rating Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose-Bearer) Alina Bottez 10/03/2018Otto Schenk’s production is by now a classic. Having premiered in 1972, it is one of the longest-running opera productions...
Reviewer's Rating A Letter to Harvey Milk. Becca Kaplan 05/03/2018When I saw A Letter to Harvey Milk, it was the night after Purim. What a fitting time to see...
Reviewer's Rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Alina Bottez 05/03/2018It seems that the tumultuous fate of Somma’s libretto, moved to three different settings, was not enough. Director Erath makes...
Reviewer's Rating Semiramide Marc Aronson 23/02/2018Attending the premier of the revival of Giacomo Rossini’s Semiramide at the Metropolitan Opera the week after Black Panther opened...
Reviewer's Rating Contemporaneity 2.0 Aparna Halpé 21/02/2018What would truth and reconciliation look like, sound like, feel like, if it arrived through the body-knowledge of Indigenous, Black...
Reviewer's Rating Frankenstein Aleksandra Pytko 20/02/2018In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, a novel that tells the story of a young ambitious scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who...
Reviewer's Rating Abduction from the Seraglio Aparna Halpé 19/02/2018The COCs new production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio attempts much, but delivers little. The production, at first...
Reviewer's Rating Pete Rex Austin Fimmano 16/02/2018Have you ever watched Jurassic Park and wished that it was a lot weirder? And that, instead of a magical...
Reviewer's Rating Three Sisters Leslie Gordon 15/02/2018Sarah Ruhl, the funny, sensitive somewhat absurdist playwright of our time, interpreting Anton Chekhov, the grandfather of it all– what...
