Music
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La Traviata
Avery Boettcher's Performance Highlights Livermore Valley's Outstanding Production
By: - Sep 30th, 2025One of the canon's most fabled operas, the story of a frail, doomed courtesan and her star-crossed love for a man from the upper class has resonated with audiences of all ilks for over 170 years. Verdi's sumptuous score with stunning arias and ensembles is matchless.
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Bates, Szymanowski, Lutoslawski at NY Phil
David Robertson Conducts
By: - Sep 29th, 2025David Robertson and the New York Philharmonic performed a program that displayed the orchestra in all its glory.
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Pene Pate at the Park Avenue Armory
Tenor of the Century Performs
By: - Sep 28th, 2025Tenor Pene Pate gave his first concert in New York at the Park Aveneue Armory. He has a superb voice, impeccable, warm deilvery and a special generosity, charcteeristic of his Samoan heritage.
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Kavalier and Clay Come to the Met
Composer Mason Bates Not Well Served
By: - Sep 26th, 2025If you listened carefully to a panel discussion at the Guggenheim Museum a few weeks before the opera by Mason Bates, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, opened, you could hear the problems staging this work was going to face at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Victoria Bond at The Village Trip
Wonderful, Wild Music in New York
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Poets of Patchin Place features the première of settings of Barnes’ poetry by William Kentner Anderson. Also on the program: Victoria Bond: “Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming” from Ulysses by James Joyce. Nehemiah Luckett: “Oceans Always Lead to Some Great Good Place,” inspired by James Baldwin’s Another Country and commissioned by The Village Trip for Baldwin’s centennial,
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Dead Man Walking
San Francisco Opera Reprises 21st Century's Most Successful Opera
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Joseph de Rocher faces execution for the grisly murders of young lovers. Though unrepentant, he requests and receives spiritual counseling from Sister Helen Prejean. The opera based on the true story scintillates on all dimensions.
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White Raven, Black Dove in Boston
White Snakes Projects Presents
By: - Sep 17th, 2025Celebrated for creating diverse, timely and relevant opera, White Snake Projects (WSP) returns to Boston’s Strand Theatre, September 26-28, 2025, for the world premiere of White Raven, Black Dove, in a season dedicated to addressing the climate crisis through art. Composed by Jacinth Greywoode and Andrew Lynch, and written by librettist Cerise Lim Jacob, White Raven, Blake Dove is an original work of science fiction fantasy exploring two issues consuming America today – race and climate change.
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Cosi fan Tutte
Opera San Jose Charms with a Bright Version of the Mozart / da Ponte Favorite
By: - Sep 17th, 2025A small-scale grand opera, Cosi revolves around a bet that two sisters will be unfaithful to their fiances within 24 hours. To tempt the women, the men are required to dress like Albanians, with each man pursuing the other's beloved. Cosi is full of beautiful, if unmemorable music, but the comic chops of the singers are what makes the opera most appealing.
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The Heart at La Jolla
By Kate Kerrigan, Music and Lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath
By: - Sep 08th, 2025The Heart is written by Kate Kerrigan, with music and lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath. It is based on the novel, Réparer les Vivants by Maylis de Kerangal. In the LA Jolla Playhouse production, over 24 hours, the heart of a person in the wrong place at the wrong time is connected to another person who was in the right place at the right time to answer the call.
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A Night with Janis Joplin
Sonoma Arts Live's Lively Jukebox Musical
By: - Sep 06th, 2025Janis Joplin was one of rock-and-roll's greatest icons. This musical tribute to her which has thrilled audiences across the country and around the world returns to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she earned her fame.
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Berio and Boulez at the Berlin Music Festiva;
Both Composers 100th Birthdays
By: - Sep 05th, 2025The Berlin Music Festival is honoring Luciano Berio on the occasion of his 100th birthday with eight concerts devoted to his work. His explorations of acoustic sound fused with electronics, his relentless push to test the technical and expressive limits of instruments, his inventive musical collage and dialogues between traditions are all being showcased. Pierre Boulez, whose centenary also falls this year, is likewise being celebrated.
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Berlin Philharmonic Opens Its Season
Kirill Petrenko Compels
By: - Aug 31st, 2025The Berlin Philharmonic launched its 2025–26 season with a program that set Schumann, Zimmermann, and Brahms in conversation across a century of musical upheaval. Under Kirill Petrenko’s direction, the evening unfolded less like a sequence of works than a drama in three acts.
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BSO Opens its Boston Season
Free Concert in Symphony Hall
By: - Aug 26th, 2025The Boston Symphony opens its fall season with a free concert at Symphony Hall on September 17.
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Wozzeck
A Fine Rendering by West Edge Opera of the Atonal Masterpiece
By: - Aug 10th, 2025Downtrodden Franz Wozzeck suffers abuse from those in higher social classes and is betrayed by his common-law wife who has an affair with a Drum Major. West Edge depicts the drama of the underclass in concert with the dissonance of Alban Berg's music.
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Barrington"s Mr. Finn Cabaret
Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko
By: - Aug 08th, 2025Barrington Stage Company announces two dazzling evenings of Broadway talent at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, headlined by two of the Great White Way’s brightest stars: Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko.
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The Knights at Clark Art Institute
Two Free Concerts
By: - Aug 05th, 2025Over Labor Day weekend, The Knights return to the Clark Art Institute to present two free concerts for music lovers of all ages.
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David and Jonathan
Baroque Opera with a Modern Twist at West Edge
By: - Aug 04th, 2025Charpentier's 1688 opera celebrates the close but star-crossed friendship of Biblical hero David with Jonathan, the son of Saul, Israel's first king. Saul's resistance to God's call to step down in favor of David results in a clash between Saul and David as well as Jonathan's conflict between love and duty. Without bending the text, the West Edge twist is that David and Jonathan's relationship is carnal.
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Dolores
World Premiere at West Edge Opera Honors Distinguished Labor Leader
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025Dolores Huerta made her mark as Cesar Chavez's most trusted associate in the California grape pickers strike and boycott starting in 1965 that would result in major protections for agricultural workers. Independently, she led strikes and boycotts elsewhere, and she negotiated the contract that would end the unrest.
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Le Comte Ory
Rossini's Comedy Done Right at Merola
By: - Aug 02nd, 2025The hedonistic and opportunistic Comte Ory takes advantage of men being away at the Crusades to pursue women. Knowing that the Comtesse Adele seeks spiritual guidance, his first gambit is to disguise as a hermit, but his own page gets in the way.
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Faure's Penelope at Munich Opera
Karkacheva and Jovanovich Star
By: - Aug 01st, 2025As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, the Munich Opera Festival presented Pénélope by Gabriel Fauré—a bold and welcome choice. To champion this rarely performed work, the company brought in Andrea Breth, one of Germany’s most accomplished theater directors. The cast clearly responded to her direction with commitment and nuance.
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Mundruczó's Lohengrin in Munich
Munich Opera Festival Mounts Wagner's Most Frequentlyly Performed Work
By: - Jul 31st, 2025No opera company today rivals the Munich Opera when it comes to innovative yet deeply respectful productions of the classic repertoire. While it’s tempting—and often rewarding—to look beyond the traditional opera circuit for new creative voices, few choices are as effective as Hungarian filmmaker and theater director Kornél Mundruczó.
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Annie the Musical
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Jul 30th, 2025Annie has a strong connection to Connecticut. It started life at Goodspeed in 1976, before heading to Broadway, where it not only won multiple Tony Awards but played until 1983. While the inspiration was the comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, the musical’s plot by Thomas Meehan, is completely original. Charles Strouse wrote the music with lyrics by Martin Charnin.
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Das Rheingold in Munich
Prelude to a Stunning New Ring Cycle by Tobias Kratzger
By: - Jul 29th, 2025The Munich Opera celebrates summer with an annual festival. This year, the prelude to the Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner, Das Rheingold, provided novel and thrilling music and drama.
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Die Walküre
A Tale of Conflicts and Betrayals
By: - Jul 28th, 2025Brünhilde's empathy for illicit lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde induces her to betray the orders of her father Wotan, the king of gods. His punishment is to reduce her to becoming a mortal. Santa Fe Opera's production excels.
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Rigoletto
Verdi's Tragic Masterpiece at Santa Fe Opera
By: - Jul 27th, 2025The jester Rigoletto vows to protect his daughter from lascivious men. Not only does he fail, but he suffers tragic consequences as a result of his attempted revenge after her abduction and abuse.
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