Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...
The orchestral sound was supple and rich, the brass section seizing every opportunity to shine in an opera that offers them some of their finest moments. The cast was stellar. Camilla Nylund, one of ...
That’s the case with Irish National Opera’s current touring production of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. Conductor Richard Peirson was commissioned to re-work the score, making it manageable ...
But if Hill-Gibbins stretches reality beyond breaking, aided and abetted by Matthew Richardson’s queasy, neon-tinged lighting, it’s a game that works because of the anchor of Jeremy Sams’ English ...
The season's six productions are themed to twilight and transformation, as exemplified by Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General & ...
Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and Scottish Opera, among others. Clarke appeared in concert with Orchestre National du Capitole Toulouse, London Symphony Orchestra, ...
From her county hospital bed in Riverside, Calif., a young woman disabled by cerebral palsy filed suit in 1983 to force local authorities to help her kill herself. She wanted “just to be left ...
By Gary Trust Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” notches a fourth total and consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The ballad became Gaga’s sixth Hot 100 ...