The fine acoustics also make Britten’s chamber orchestra sound vivid and punchy, and conductor Bassem Akiki drives the drama ...

Natalie Abrahami and Michael Levine’s imaginative production is brilliantly creepy and insightful. A first-rate cast of adults and children do not put a foot wrong ...

The opening scenes play out on what appears to be a relatively spare, shifting interior – doors, beds and blocks constantly reconfigured – before the lake scene brings the production’s central image ...

The Merola Opera Program returns this summer with four events in store: an opening recital, a Schwabacher Summer Concert , the Merola Grand Finale, and — as the season’s centerpiece — a new production ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of ...

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Tamara Wilson as Brünnhilde in dress rehearsal of Santa Fe Opera production of Wagner's 'Die Walküre' at the Crosby Theatre in Santa Fe, N.M. in July 2025. Curtis Brown / Santa Fe Opera SANTA FE, N.M.

Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” directed by Deborah Warner in her Paris Opera debut, reintroduces a 20th-century composer to French audiences. By David Belcher The bitter and bloodthirsty ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

(L to R) Briana Hunter as Zoe, Adrienne Danrich as Ida and Brandie Inez Sutton as Young Ida with (background, L to R) Aundi Marie Moore as Lucy, Victor Ryan Robertson as Uncle Percy in Opera Theatre ...

First, certainly, find your singers – which they had, and cast them mostly well, too - but perhaps also make sure you have an orchestra of virtuosi. And here the brave attempt to find an ad hoc group ...

Outside, the snow had begun to fall, rapidly covering the huddled passers by buried in all manner of furs, evidence of the sudden decline in temperature. Yet the warm glow of the Conservatory lights ...