Performing “Vanessa” is just what the Boston Symphony should be doing. But its concert staging came off as drab and ineffective.
Category: Menotti, Gian Carlo
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Miracle on 64th Street: Options for Holiday Opera
Usually, holiday opera is scarce on major stages in New York. But this year, there are two at Lincoln Center alone.
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Why Return to ‘A Christmas Carol’? To Find Something New.
Popping up once a year, works like Dickens’s holiday tale, “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” help us gauge where we are in our lives.
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Why Is an Entire Age of American Opera Missing at the Met?
A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with its midcentury peers.