The Staying Inside Guide: Arias Still Ring Out

Opera companies around the world are making filmed versions of their productions available online.  ByHeidi WalesonMarch 23, 2020 5:22 pm ET With opera houses shuttered and social distancing the norm, opera lovers can still find a wealth of lyric theater online. Major companies and arts streaming services are offering free performances from their archives; smaller groups …

‘Sweet Land’ Review: A Journey Through History

In its ambitious, sprawling opera, staged across Los Angeles State Historic Park, The Industry explores a troubled colonial past.  ByHeidi WalesonMarch 10, 2020 3:35 pm ET Los Angeles, CA With “Hopscotch” in 2015, The Industry, Los Angeles’s audacious indie opera company, made art that grew out of the environment that Angelenos inhabit every day. It …

The Last American Hammer’ Review: Standoff Satire

An unemployed conspiracy theorist faces off against a federal agent inside a museum of Toby jugs in this ruefully humorous work at Pittsburgh Opera. ByHeidi WalesonFeb. 24, 2020 2:28 pm ET Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Opera has embraced the multitheater concept, mounting several productions each season away from the city’s traditional 2,800-seat opera house in the Benedum Center. …

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique 2/21/20 | Carnegie Hall

Hear Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique capture the unbridled power and intensity of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, as well as his Fourth, a gentler symphony that features a finale that greatly invokes the spirit of its legendary composer. Get tickets. — Read on http://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2020/02/21/orchestre-revolutionnaire-et-romantique-0800pm

Struggles for Justice Take Center Stage

In ‘The Mother of Us All,’ Susan B. Anthony leads the charge for women’s suffrage; in ‘Freedom Ride,’ a young black woman decides whether to openly fight segregation in interstate travel ByHeidi Waleson Feb. 12, 2020 3:21 pm ET New York Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s opera “The Mother of Us All” (1947) is a natural …