Review: H.M.S. PINAFORE at Winter Opera
by Steve Callahan - Nov 8, 2024
It's a splendid production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s 'H.M.S. Pinafore', and it brims with glorious music, wonderful voices, and bright, delightful, timeless comedy.
Review: IOLANTHE, London Coliseum
by Franco Milazzo - Oct 9, 2023
If a revival is akin to colouring in someone else’s artwork, Cal McCrystal’s Iolanthe for the ENO does so with every shade under the sun.
Review: RUDDIGORE, Opera Holland Park
by Gary Naylor - Aug 10, 2023
Super show, a little slow at first, but blossoming into an escapist entertainment that can be enjoyed as much in the 2020s as it was in the 1880s
Opera San José Launches Season With All-New ROMEO & JULIET
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 5, 2023
Opera San José will launch its 40th anniversary season with an all-new production of Charles Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, directed by OSJ General Director/CEO Shawna Lucey, in her first production since taking the helm of the company. Romeo and Juliet follows on the heels of Lucey's critically acclaimed La Traviata for San Francisco Opera, which is scheduled to be remounted at Los Angeles Opera this fall.