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Opera

Concert Review: Handel & Haydn Society Plays Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”

A thoroughly charismatic Fairy Queen from start to finish, well-prepared, fulgently delivered, and received by a packed house with well-earned warmth.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Handel & Haydn Society, Harry Christophers, Henry-Purcell, Opera, The Fairy Queen

Opera Review: A Delightful “Magic Flute” from Boston Baroque

Boston Baroque staged a very enjoyable and entertaining performance of Mozart’s much-loved opera.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston Baroque, Nicholas Phan, Opera, The Magic Flute

Fuse Concert Review: Boston Early Music Festival — Musical Miracle Workers

After experiencing, in seven days, Monteverdi’s three extant operas and his Vespers of 1610, I am in awe of BEMF and everyone associated with it.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: BEMF, Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music, Monteverdi, Opera, Orfeo, The Coronation of Poppea, The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland, Vespers of 1610

Music Preview: East Coast Premiere of an Opera about the Fight for Civil Rights –“Dark River”

Fanny Lou Hamer’s life and the political struggle, which gave us the Voting Rights Act, is the basis of Mary Watkins’ two-act opera.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: civil rights, Dark River, Mary Watkins, Mount Holyoke College, Opera

Coming Attractions in Theater: March 2011

An exciting month, and that isn’t hyperbole. A couple of North American premieres: a futuristic opera from MIT’s Tod Machover and poet Robert Pinsky and a drama tweaking The New Testament from Howard Brenton. Toss in iconic director Peter Brook staging Beckett, F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, and Car Talk:The Musical and you are talking about taking out the smelling salts

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Opera, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, ArtsEmerson, Bear Patrol, Book of Days, Car Talk: The Musical, Click and Clack, Come and Go, Danny Boyle, Darko Tresnjak, Death and the Powers:The Robots' Opera, Diane Paulus, Educating Rita, Elevator Repair Service, F. Murray Abraham, Fragmens, Frankenstein, Howard Benson, Huntington-Theatre-Company, John J. King, Karole-Armitage, Lanford Wilson, Marie-Hélène Estienne, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Modern Theatre, National Theatre Live, Neil-Labute, Neither, Nick Dear, NPR, NT Live, Opera, Paul, Peter Brook, Poetry, Ray and Tom Magliozzi, Reasons to Be Pretty, Robert Pinsky, Rockaby, Rough for Theatre I, samuel-beckett, Seth Rozin, Shylock, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, The Merchant of Venice, The Rimers of Eldritch, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Theatre for a New Audience, Tod Machover, Two Jews Walk Into a War .., Vaquero Playground, Wesley Savick, Weylin Symes, William-Shakespeare, Willy Russell

Classical Music Review: The BEMF’s Impressive “Dido and Aeneas”

BEMF’s Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs have, once again, produced a work of impeccable and imaginative scholarship for a production that’s not only historically informed, but musically, dramatically, and visually entertaining. Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate. Presented by the Boston Early Music Festival. At New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston, MA, […]

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Dido-and-Aeneas, Henry-Purcell, Opera, Susan Miron

Opera Review: ‘Tosca’

The Boston Lyric Opera’s current production, adapted from the Scottish Opera, is updated, but this does no real damage. The three locales are properly preserved. And the three principal characters—opera diva Floria Tosca, her lover Mario Cavaradossi, and the lusting and villainous Baron Scarpia—hit their mark solidly. By Caldwell Titcomb. Some years ago the noted […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Caldwell-Titcomb, Opera, Puccini, Tosca

Book Review: Working with Bernstein

Working with Bernstein: A Memoir by Jack Gottlieb. Amadeus Press, 370 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Caldwell Titcomb A strong case can be made that the late Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was the all-round greatest musician our country has produced—virtuoso pianist, composer of both classical and popular music, the most charismatic conductor of his century, acclaimed educator […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music, Theater, World Books Tagged: American, conductor, Jack Gottlieb, Leonard Berstein, musical, Opera, West-side-story

Classical Music Review: ‘La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein’

Reviewed By Caldwell Titcomb Opera Boston is winding up its season with a delightful production of Jacques Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867). This operetta, one of more than 100 of Offenbach’s works for the music stage, followed closely after three of his most accomplished contributions: La Belle Hélène (1864), Barbe-Bleue (1866), and La Vie […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston, Caldwell-Titcomb, Gil-Rose, Jacques-Offenbach, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Opera, Opera Bostpm

Opera Review: ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’

Reviewed By Caldwell Titcomb I was not able to catch Ariadne auf Naxos until the last of six performances that the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) presented at the Shubert Theatre. By this time everything was clicking superbly—both the singers and the instrumentalists in the pit. What we got was a production that the BLO imported […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Opera Tagged: Ariadne auf Naxos, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Caldwell-Titcomb, Classical Music, Opera, Welsh National Opera

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