Opera – Page 91

Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted

In “Solomon,” performed elegantly at Carnegie Hall by the English Concert and Clarion Choir under Harry Bicket, the chorus is the star.

By Zachary Woolfe

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this opera adaptation of Tolstoy seemed unperformable. But in Munich, it has become an urgent antiwar cry.

By Joshua Barone

The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.

By Thomas May

Sonya Yoncheva doesn’t fill out the long lines of “Norma” at the Met, while Angel Blue is a warm, sincere Violetta in “La Traviata.”

By Zachary Woolfe