“Treemonisha” — brilliant, flawed and unfinished — is ripe for creative reimagining at a time when opera houses are looking to diversify the canon.
Category: Opera
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Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ at the Bayreuth Festival Experiments With AR
Cutting-edge technology has again come to the Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner premiered his final opera with the latest stagecraft in 1882.
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Reimagining ‘Madame Butterfly,’ With Asian Creators at the Helm
As opera houses rework Puccini’s classic, criticized for stereotypes about women and Japanese culture, artists of Asian descent are playing a central role.
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At Wagner’s Festival, New Technology Reveals a Leadership Rift
The Bayreuth Festival’s production of “Parsifal” will feature augmented reality. Securing the equipment set off a financial and philosophical dispute.
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Nico Muhly Modernizes Monteverdi With ‘Irreverent Veneration’
Muhly has reorchestrated Monteverdi’s foundational “L’Orfeo” for a new production at Santa Fe Opera.
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Bel Canto Rarities, Delivered With Unflashy, Revelatory Style
Teatro Nuovo’s concerts of Donizetti’s “Poliuto” and the Ricci brothers’ “Crispino e la Comare” delight with historically informed singing.
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Review: A Met Opera-Bound ‘Semele’ Takes Its First Bows
Claus Guth’s entertaining and often sexy new staging of Handel’s opera-oratorio hybrid in Munich is a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera.
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“The Greek Passion” Takes Center Stage at the Salzburg Festival
Bohuslav Martinu’s “Greek Passion” poses a timeless question: when a group of refugees seek protection in a new community, what will the locals do?
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The Baritone Andrè Schuen Performs at the Salzburg Festival
Andrè Schuen stars as Count Almaviva in the Salzburg Festival’s new production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.”
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Apocalypse Nowish: An Octavia Butler Opera May Be Prophetic
Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon adapted Butler’s dystopian “Parable of the Sower.” Their opera makes its New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City.
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The Ups and Downs of the Aix-en-Provence Festival
Not everything was an artistic or audience success at the 75th Aix-en-Provence Festival in France. But everything was worth discussing.