Pietro Mascagni's short opera Cavalleria Rusticana is often paired with the similar length Pagliacci. As Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera was staged last s...
The Age of Reinvention is an audacious, thought-provoking, fast-paced, thrilling play. Adapted from Karine Tuil’s best seller (L’Invention de Nos Vies...
Jacques Offenbach's beloved opera, inspired by the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann, is a challenging piece of theatre to produce. Telling three different s...
The beginning of this new season at the Comédie Française offers a look at George Sand’s work - a 19th Century feminist icon widely known for her nove...
Not an opera. Not a play. Not a concert. These declarations are highlighted on Michael Temporary Name's website. So what it is? Gon Halevi calls it a ...
Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience as a director and, apart from so...
“So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing herself into the river Volga. She...
For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte collaborating with...
Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally days after the experien...
Few shows have ever sparked the audience of the Festival d'Avignon so passionately. Miet Warlop, a 44-year-old Belgian artist, and her troupe brought ...
