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TULLY POTTER reviews: Die Walkure at the Royal Opera House: The costumes are a mess and there's a giant log in the middle of the set... but the singing and playing a…
As the scenery, costumes and production are execrable — Wotan, supposedly king of the gods, is a dead ringer for J.D. Vance ( ...
Unique ‘Treemonisha’ comes to Orlando with potent message for our times
The opera “Treemonisha,” unique in multiple respects, still has an important message for the world 100 years after it was ...
Resistance in Ukraine: The Show Must Go On (Underground) in the Kharkiv Opera House
The opera house in Kharkiv was almost destroyed and an undetonated Russian rocket can still be found on its roof. But after a long interruption, the ensemble is once again staging productions - in the ...
Winnipeg Free Press4d
Princess Opera House fire of 1892 nearly wiped out the Exchange District
The Princess Opera House opened to great fanfare in May 1883 at the corner of Princess Street and Ross Avenue. For many, the ...
The New Yorker6d
The Man to Call When You Need a Cimbalom. (A What?)
Chester Englander is a big name in a small world: he is playing the cimbalom, a jumbo hammered dulcimer that resembles an ...
Opera review: How does the inane ‘Barber of Seville’ become transcendent?
It’s a credit to Gioachino Rossini’s genius that the opera’s music remains ubiquitous in our cultural soundtrack.