Alex Prager’s first feature 'DreamQuil,' starring Elizabeth Banks, is filled with heady ideas and impeccable designs, but ...
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “The Silent Serenade,” written in the 1940s, was given its English-language, United States premiere ...
When the joyful energy at the final curtain - love briefly triumphant in the power-dominated world of Wagner's Ring - is as insanely high as it was at the end of a dizzying first act, that killer of a ...
This is a difficult opera to stage now, and director Matthew Ozawa has found an effective solution. And audiences still hear every note of Puccini’s beloved 1904 score.
Philip Glass is an old hand at scoring films. His 1994 work with Jean Cocteau's superb "La Belle et La Bte" (1946) is the second of a Cocteau trilogy including "Orphee" and "Les ...
Yuval Sharon’s debut production featured an astonishing performance by the soprano Lise Davidsen. It is the event of the season.
Harry Bicket and the English Concert presented the composer’s highly theatrical but little-known 1745 oratorio in an uneven but frequently arresting performance.
Carly was partially responsible for two of the better moments on soaps this week. First, Carly (Laura Wright) and Joss (Eden ...
Sarasota Opera has been awarded a $24,000 grant by the NEA to support its 2026 production of Carlisle Floyd's SUSANNAH.
Menotti’s opera entertainingly holds the stage. Its satire, more gentle than biting, is couched in the musical vocabulary and ...
In light of the recent comments about ballet and opera made by Timothée Chalamet, JTA Columnist Andrew Silow-Carroll ...
What makes a “grand opera” grand? Well, in part, it’s the sheer number of artists involved, reviewer Page Laws says.