Othello Yael Shuv 03/02/2025Verdi’s 1887 opera, based on Shakespeare’s 1603 play, is a tragedy fueled by jealousy, suspicion, and masculine rage. In today’s...
The Flying Dutchman at the New National Theatre Tokyo Miho Uchida 28/01/2025Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman draws inspiration from the composer’s stormy sea voyage from Riga to London in 1839. In...
Re Chicchinella Thibault Elie 14/01/2025The play tells the absurd and surreal story of a king who finds himself with a chicken lodged inside him,...
Reviewer's Rating The Little Match Girl Passion Austin Fimmano 18/12/2024The holiday season in New York is full of Christmas traditions, from the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, to the New...
Guillaume Tell Miho Uchida 04/12/2024Rossini’s final opera, Guillaume Tell, was recently staged at The New National Theatre Tokyo in its original French for the...
Reviewer's Rating Immunity Austin Fimmano 23/11/2024It’s a Friday night in uptown Manhattan, and we are being ushered into a crypt lit only by candlelight. It’s...
La Bohème Josi Steinfeld 18/11/2024In March 1893, shortly after the premiere of Manon Lescaut, Puccini met fellow composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo in a café. Puccini...
L’elisir d’amore שיקוי אהבה Yael Shuv 12/11/2024Gaetano Donizetti’s 1832 opera buffa is one of the most beloved works of the bel canto composer. In 1997, director...
The Sleepwalker (La Sonnambula) Miho Uchida 14/10/2024Bárbara Lluch’s latest production of Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the New National Theatre Tokyo is an absolute triumph, a veritable...
Banquet Capital Thibault Elie 30/09/2024Set in 1848, a time when France is on the brink of its third revolution after the upheavals of 1789...
