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The Ancient Theater of Epidaurus is the world’s largest non-amplified performance space, seating 14,000 spectators. Each summer the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, almost exclusively devoted to ancient Greek drama, attracts a devoted and largely local audience.

Occasionally, the festival presents related works in other genres. As a result, Epidaurus enjoys a special ...

It takes some nerve to initiate a Ring cycle in a country house setting with relatively modest resources in comparison to the major opera companies. But this is Wasfi Kani who is surely following the model set by Longborough Festival’s two complete Ring cycles achieved within the last 20 years. Now, she has recently launched Grange Park Opera’s Wagnerian epic, its four music ...

With its riveting production of André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has dramatically reinforced its stature as one of the nation’s finest summer festivals.

First, let me state the obvious to anyone who has eyes and ears: Soprano Sara Gartland is a tour de force, and she is giving an overwhelmingly powerful performa...

Although not the earliest opera, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (1607) is the first masterpiece of the genre, and surprisingly Glyndebourne has never staged it before. It fits in with the festival’s present season which features other operas in which musicians and artists are prominent – Tosca, Il turco in Italia, and Ariadne auf Naxos (and Belmonte ...

Wagner described his epoch-making Tristan und Isolde as a monument erected to the ‘most beautiful dream’ of happiness in love, implying that this is an illusion lying beyond everyday reality, probably never to be reached in this world or life. Carmen Jakobi’s production for Longborough (revived from 2015 and 2017) is inspired by Jungian psychology and resides in the ...