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By: Andrew M. Manshel March 23, 2020 On Monday, October 19, 1987, Heidi and I were in Les Beaux de Provence, on our second trip together to Europe. We had a week left on our two-week vacation. We had driven south on the Route du Soleil through a raging rain storm, one that was in …

Continue reading “Several Crises Back…”

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 …

Continue reading “The Staying Inside Guide: Arias Still Ring Out”

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 …

Continue reading “‘Sweet Land’ Review: A Journey Through History”

Westside Story is being revived on Broadway in 2020, and tickets for all performances are on sale now – Get Westside Story Tickets here! — Read on http://www.westsidestory2020.com/home Incredible. Not to be missed.

The Met’s new production of ‘Der Fliegende Holländer’ (The Flying Dutchman) is a gloomy, static voyage.  ByHeidi WalesonMarch 4, 2020 3:08 pm ET Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” is a ghost story, but the new production that opened on Monday at the Metropolitan Opera is deadly, and not in a good way. It was surprising that …

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Metropolitan Opera | Der Fliegende Holländer — Read on http://www.metopera.org/season/2019-20-season/der-fliegende-hollander/

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. …

Continue reading “The Last American Hammer’ Review: Standoff Satire”

Metropolitan Opera | Così fan tutte — Read on http://www.metopera.org/season/2019-20-season/cosi-fan-tutte/

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

2019-20 Season: Brahms, Strauss, and Tania León — Read on nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1920/brahms-strauss-and-tania-leon