Matthew Gurewitsch
Opera Pick of the Week
If you liked The Bride of Frankenstein, you’ll love Charles Gounod’s Gothic thriller La Nonne Sanglante
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
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
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
Opera Pick of the Week
More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore
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
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
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
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
Opera Pick of the Week
Everest, Joby Talbot’s intimate epic, expands its already considerable reach as the world’s first (we think) graphic-novel opera
The Music Man
Meet Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, a proud Chicaksaw composer with a thing for Shostakovich
Opera Pick of the Week
From the Boston Lyric Opera, a never-before-released video of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt
Opera Pick of the Week
Streaming one night only, a new production of Tristan und Isolde from Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper with dream cast Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros
Opera Pick of the Week
From Boston Lyric Opera in a bicoastal partnership with Long Beach Opera, the game-changing miniseries Desert In
Opera Pick of the Week
In Lo Schiavo, Verdi’s forgotten Brazilian disciple tackles colonialism, South American style
Opera Pick of the Week
Virtual by necessity, the Los Angeles Opera’s shadow-puppet Œdipus Rex capitalizes on artistic techniques refined during the pandemic
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From the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Opéra de Lille, Debussy’s enigmatic Pelléas et Mélisande in a yin-yang pair of new productions
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On Site Opera’s The Road We Came explores Black music history in New York City with walking tours of Manhattan and Harlem
Classical Music’s Underdog
The 24-year-old violinist Randall Goosby has shot to fame on an instrument he named “LeBron”
Opera Pick of the Week
The Opéra de Paris comes back to life with The Satin Slipper, Marc-André Dalbavie’s epic of thwarted desire
