What Color is Your Parachute? As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions
January 14, 2022
Born to Sing Verdi Hawaiian star baritone Quinn Kelsey anchors the Met’s new Rigoletto
Theater Pick of the Week From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages
December 17, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect
December 16, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces
December 16, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D
December 10, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad
December 3, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week From San Francisco, an intriguing new take on Così fan tutte, Mozart’s politically scandalous, musically sublime comedy of deception
November 19, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week With the recital album Baritenor, the singer-scholar Michael Spyres mines music history for sheer delight
November 12, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week From Brussels, The Time of Our Singing, an operatic mixed-race American family saga, speaks to our historical moment with an eloquence that transcends it
November 2, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Love hurts in Jenůfa, Leoš Janáček’s tragedy from the hinterlands of Moravia, brought to thrilling life at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London
October 28, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week What’s better, sex or salvation? Tannhäuser, Wagner’s schizophrenic singer of courtly love songs, simply cannot decide
October 21, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week If you liked The Bride of Frankenstein, you’ll love Charles Gounod’s Gothic thriller La Nonne Sanglante
October 14, 2021
A Classicist at Heart Whatever it might mean for him to “play the race card,” the tenor Russell Thomas isn’t having any
Opera Pick of the Week From San Francisco Opera, a bold new reading of Beethoven’s soul-stirring political thriller Fidelio
October 8, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Double déjà vu all over again: Il Trovatore, Verdi’s warhorse in excelsis, live from Los Angeles, with dueling heroes and two modern-day knights
October 1, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week As the Metropolitan Opera returns to live performance, an easy fix for fans hooked on the company’s once-complimentary nightly streams
September 24, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore
September 17, 2021
Curtain Up on a New Era The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s incoming music director, Enrique Mazzola, strives for golden-age excellence—and a new populism
Opera Pick of the Week From La Scala, a timeless account of Verdi’s Un Ballo In Maschera led by Riccardo Muti, his supreme living interpreter
September 10, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week The certain something in this pandemic Don Giovanni from Prague is the unique aura of the theater in which it was filmed
September 1, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods crunches Richard Wagner’s four-night “Ring” cycle into a 60-minute crawl through a parking garage
August 27, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Stone Age Mozarteans up in arms about Munich’s new-school Idomeneo will still surrender to the incandescent Emily D’Angelo
August 20, 2021
