L’opera seria at La Scala, Milan is a farce where the laughs wear thin — review
During an evening performance at La Scala, things are going badly wrong. The dancers’ camp routine is uncoordinated, a soprano singing from atop a flimsy cut-out elephant shrieks as she tumbles, and ...
The Second Shangyin Opera House & Gulangyu Opera Competition
The Shangyin Opera House has staged grand galas in celebration of historically significant events, including the 70th ...
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A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria
Christophe Rousset leads a great cast and an even greater orchestra in Gassmann’s 1769 rarity in Laurent Pelly’s visually ...
Review: ‘The Listeners’ at Lyric Opera loses its story as it follows the Hum
The Listeners,” the wild new opera with music by Missy Mazzoli and a libretto by Royce Varek, begins with a coyote dancing across the stage of Chicago’s Lyric Opera and proceeds ...