I still remember how my heart would pound with excitement each week as the latest episode of “Game of Thrones” began unfolding on my TV screen. I had the same feeling Friday night at the Dr. Phillips ...
Director Katie Mitchell’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor, first seen in 2016 and now revived by Robin Tebbutt, turns Gaetano Donizetti’s opera inside out, to show its audience Lucia’s story fleshed ...
No opera company should be asked to survive without an occasional dip into the life-giving force of "Lucia di Lammermoor." It is, in many ways, the prototypical opera: the one in which all the jokes ...
“Vehicles of vocalism and nothing else”. Those are the words of Virgil Thomson, critic extraordinaire of the 20th century, used to describe for posterity the works of Gaetano Donizetti. Saturday ...
No opera company should be asked to survive without an occasional dip into the life-giving force of "Lucia di Lammermoor." It is, in many ways, the prototypical opera: the one in which all the jokes ...