After the darkness and death permeating Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” which Seattle Opera presented a few weeks ago, there could hardly be a stronger or more salubrious contrast than the brilliance and ...
Who knows what impels a composer of 80 to come out of a six-year retirement and write one last opera. Maybe he's bored, wants to show he still has what it takes, needs to get back in the game one last ...
A sound rule of operatic thumb: A director may take all sorts of liberties with the time and place of a time-honored opera, provided he knows what he’s doing and can get away with it. Director Stephen ...
Il Falstaff della Fenice è una commedia in musica che invita a prendersi poco sul serio. Ma anche un esempio di come la cultura può rispondere, con ironia e profondità, a un presente complicato sotto ...