Teatro Nuovo followed up its exciting account of Bellini’s La Straniera last week with a memorable presentation the very next evening (July 18) at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater of another bel canto masterpiece, Rossini’s … » Read

One of his first big hits, Bellini’s La Straniera is among the composer’s most musically daring and dramatically imaginative works. Nevertheless, well before the end of the 19th century it had fallen firmly out of the repertoire. … » Read

Film, television, sports, and other mainstream media have historically birthed a long list of celebrities—those of worldwide, grand status—while it remains easy to count on one hand (maybe two) the number of worldwide celebrities in … » Read

Mark Morris is known as an unfailingly musical choreographer. So, it’s no surprise that Sport , his newest work for the Mark Morris Dance Group, is a droll and at times sardonic tribute to Erik Satie’s 1914 Sports et divertissements . … » Read

ROME--For its summer stage, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma uses the Baths of Caracalla, a massive third-century outdoor ruin whose location away from Rome’s crowded center means it sees relatively little traffic. Mounting a production … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco Opera made a bold move when it last presented Carmen only three years ago, at the end of the David Gockley era. It marked the first-ever North American platform for the highly controversial Catalan director … » Read

STOKENCHURCH, UK—Garsington Opera is celebrating its 30th-anniversary season, the ninth since it moved operations to Wormsley, the Getty family estate in the Chiltern Hills, 40 miles northwest of London. And it looks like Mark Getty is as … » Read

Franco Zeffirelli's new production of La traviata , which opened at the Verona Arena on June 21, was always going to be a tribute of sorts. Announced in February, the project would draw on his previous productions of the opera, and, as with his … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—After he returned from his sojourn in the New World, Dvorák ceased writing symphonies and turned for inspiration to Czech legend and folklore: first, in a brilliant quartet of symphonic poems (still too infrequently … » Read

SEATTLE —With the elegiac strains of the “Mondscheinmusik” interlude from Richard Strauss’s Capriccio as an encore, Ludovic Morlot brought his final program as music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra to an end … » Read