Olivia Fuchs’ delirious spin on the baroque opera comes with TV trickery, more hearts than a cardiologist convention and absolutely gorgeous singing ...
Few Baroque operas (and all by Handel) have clawed their way from oblivion to the margins of the standard repertoire, a source of chagrin to anyone who loves the period or simply hungers for broader ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As they have for decades, 19th-century warhorses like “La Bohème” and “Carmen” still dominate opera- house marquees. But just as today’s diners are ...
The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) will present a fully staged production of the 17th-century Italian opera “La finta pazza” (“the make-believe madwoman”) by Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650) in two ...
Opera is, perhaps, inherently progressive, although historically the art form has had a reputation for its sky-highbrow sensibilities. La bohème examines poverty; Carmen follows a complex feminist ...
For this year’s Hanwha Classic, French Baroque takes center stage in a one-woman opera performed by renowned French soprano Patricia Petibon and Ensemble Amarillis, performing in Korea for the first ...
Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva” according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices.
There’s a new opera company in town. Established in 2017, the American Baroque Opera Company will present their first fully staged opera, George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, March 2-4 at Arts Mission Oak ...
It was during the Paul Kellogg era of the nineties and the aughts that New York City Opera became a force for Baroque opera—specifically works by Handel, which, with their historical-mythical plots ...
San Diego Opera won’t be announcing its next season until May, but two of the city’s smaller companies — Opera Neo and newly formed Opera a la Carte San Diego — have unveiled their upcoming plans, and ...