Benvenuti a Napoli cries the huge corny poster of the blue bay and ominous Vesuvius that looms over Neil Irish’s sets for Così fan tutte. However, we’re no longer in the Enlightenment city of cynical ...
Sarasota Opera’s DaCapo Society and Palm Avenue Fine Art Gallery will host a special opening night reception for younger arts patrons on Friday, October 31, 2025. The event coincides with the ...
At the Nevill Holt festival in rural Leicestershire, Opera North show how the reality of conflicted human feelings triumph as they break free of this mechanism of deceit. For the company’s first ...
The Met's new production of Così fan tutte stages the comic opera at a Coney Island-style amusement park circa the 1950s. For those who are new to this work, the plot is delightful. Sisters Fiordiligi ...
Absurdly improbable, shockingly cynical, Mozart’s “Così fan Tutte” is populated by downright stupid and manipulative characters. It is also flooded with Mozartian beauty that offers the depth of ...
Dating nightmares make for cynical comedy in Minnesota Opera’s production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” Under Doug Scholz-Carlson’s direction, the ending is put in the hands of the ...
38.1 x 26.7 см; (15 x 10.512 inches) With frame : 25 x 20 см; (9.843 x 7.874 inches) ...
Darwin Prakash burst onto the opera scene in 2019, when he made his professional debut in the chorus at Glyndebourne. Five years before that, he didn’t read music and had no formal singing training.
Some operatic updates don’t work because they come off clumsy and narratively contradictory — often the result of stage directors trying too hard to be relevant or putting their sociopolitical stamp ...
On Friday night at the Barns at Wolf Trap, director Dan Rigazzi premiered Wolf Trap Opera’s bright and breezy take on Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” one that made the well-worn favorite feel something ...
Yesterday, ousted Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine filed suit against his erstwhile artistic home, claiming that his dismissal for sexual misconduct was only a smokescreen for a “longstanding ...