All About the Ladies (Their Voices, That Is): Don Giovanni at the Met
When it goes well, it can be brilliant – as the productions of The Marriage of Figaro at the Met during this season and Cosi Fan Tutti there during the ...
The Met’s War Horse (and a Few Real Ones): La Bohème
This is our third review together, dear reader, and by traditionalist reckoning this is either when you should give me a goodnight kiss or gently tell me we’re through. But ...
Unmerriment: The Merry Widow
Is this Met production more than the sum of its parts?
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Getting Meta at the Met
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg is Wagner’s most metatheatrical opera (edging Tannhäuser by a nose). A composition about composing, we watch the master singers ...
To The Grime Born: The Arcola Theatre Brings Opera To The Streets
Grimeborn Festival, a season of unorthodox operas at London’s Arcola Theatre, may take its name from Glyndebourne, but Lochlan Bloom will be surprised if it shares many of its visitors…