present production — the one Jean-Pierre Ponnelle was doing all over the operatic world — was created for Marilyn Horne, not so terribly long ago.

Now they are all grand old (mostly dead) men, and the public, which is as curious about new sounds in concert music as in popular music, having heard such sounds in the background of a hundred films, ...

appears at the end of performances and is deservedly applauded, for she symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, values we all want to believe in. This gives The Passenger such potent extra-musical ...

and House-debut, Gary Lehman, who earned the standing ovation he received for that feat, sharing it with the lady, Janice Baird, who jumped in to join him in mid-scene. It was not the greatest ...

Strauss’s radiant Four Last Songs were first heard 76 years ago at the RAH, which makes each appearance just that bit more ...

The label’s name and legendary yellow logo synonymous for many music lovers ...

Wolf-Ferrari is better known today, though, for his series of operas in the spirit of, or directly derived from, the plays of Carlo Goldoni — the first of which was Le donne curiose (1903). And, on ...

his 2011 opera based on Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Irish composer Gerald Barry treats Wilde as the ultimate Tweeter and takes ...

Adam Guettel’s Tony Award-winning musical, The Light in the Piazza, is being lovingly served up in a magnificent staging at this year’s Opera Theatre of Saint Louis season. It may seem dotty to begin ...

The works, recorded over the last decade, are performed by the Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz; Stepan Razin also utilizes the Seattle Symphony Chorale under the direction of Abraham ...

particular feeling that opera can engender in listeners.

In today’s market, a second will not be soon arriving, but not to worry. On the debit side, although the opera’s score presents itself as the sturdy dramatic work of a talented craftsman, it lacks ...