The Metropolitan Opera’s production includes a lot of real food, even Oreos and bagels. And it’s Rex Marquez’s job to get it ...
We tend to view “bohemia” through a hagiographic lens, but its inception, as depicted by the French writer Henri Murger in a series of vignettes entitled Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851), was hardly ...
Eun Sun Kim, who is preparing to lead the San Francisco Opera in a new production "Parsifal," reveals her bold artistry and ...
While working on his knowing and lively study of the 1981-82 season of the Metropolitan Opera, “A Year at the Met,” the editor and music historian Patrick J. Smith was on hand for the premiere of ...
It has been three years since I saw the premiere of Dutch director Floris Visser’s production of Puccini’s La bohème at Glyndebourne during the 2022 Summer Season. An opera I know and love, Visser’s ...
Bass-baritone Davóne Tines will perform a pair of concerts in Williamstown, Mass., and Hudson, on Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, respectively. The bass-baritone Davóne Tines and the New Juilliard Ensemble ...
A fifth revival of Richard Jones’ classic 2017 production of Puccini’s four-act opera La Bohème has just opened at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi ...
When most people think of “La Bohème,” I’d wager sadness and death come to mind. But Opera Orlando has imbued Puccini’s 1895 opera with laughter and life. Amazing what a change of scene can do. The ...
“She was trying to expose us to everything, to get us to think beyond our small home town,” said Solis, who grew up in Santa Ana. “In many ways, she really awoke this curiosity in the arts in me, and ...
If you missed your chance to see the Santa Fe Opera on the big stage this summer, you can catch a screening of its production of “La bohème” this weekend. Or waltz over to one of these other events.
The production, created specifically for grand opera houses, has its West Coast premiere Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: “Restoring the original scale and glory to certain pieces … is what ...
September started with a triumphant milestone as San Francisco Opera's "Opera Ball: Palazzo" celebrated both the company's 103rd season opening and General Director Matthew Shilvock's tenth year of ...