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An all-star cast, a new music director, and a returning stage director gave us Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte’s The Marriage of Figaro (1786, Le Nozze di Figaro) in full measure. Washington National Opera’s production, running through November 22, provides everything you might want from classic opera buffa. The expression on...
Since the World Series finished the day before I attended Annapolis Opera’s Don Giovanni, I will say upfront that this small opera company won the game with a team effort, displaying excellence all around. Don Giovanni, first performed in 1787, remains one of the ten most often performed operas in the world. It is large in many regards – in terms of...
This production of Aida is just as entertaining this time around as it was in 2017; you get a lot for your money in this one. My problem with Aida is that nutrition matters to me, whether food or art. In a late masterpiece, composer Giuseppe Verdi, at the height of his powers, offered a smorgasbord of delights in Aida, a French-style grand ...
Under new leadership, in a new venue, Opera Lafayette has done it again, breathing new life into a classic work of centuries yore, in a performance that was entertaining, enlightening, authentic, and culturally enriching, while exhibiting charm and delight with its creativity and performance artistry. With Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (1659), his first producti...
General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia, and world-class countertenor, Anthony Ross Costanzo is now in his second year with OP and his first in full charge of the season’s program. In his first season, he took a big swing for the stressed opera company by instituting Pick Your Price seating, starting at $11 for any seat. OP played to packed houses last s...
