Lift Every Voice and Sing
From Heartbeat Opera, a Fidelio for our time
Turning Point
Patrice Chéreau’s “Centennial Ring” at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976 changed history
Incantation
Decaying film stock, the Song of Songs, and the seraphic soprano of Angel Blue
Julius Caesar takes the Big Peach
The Atlanta Opera’s Handel is anything but stuffy
Ancient History
From operas on Nixon, Klinghoffer, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and women of the Gold Rush, John Adams progresses to Shakespeare