Human trafficking and sex slavery: The opera
Set amidst a maelstrom of deception, secrecy and violence, Anya17 emphasizes young girls' aspirations for comfort and freedom in "the West."
"Great Scott" in San Diego: Opera is dead! Long live opera!
Great Scott is a grand modern send-up of every imaginable operatic cliché and tradition: It's a hoot and a half!
A “Threepenny” production to take on the road
Pepperdine University's Theatre Department has just presented a short four-performance run of the classic.
New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
“Rosenkavalier”: A still-felt operatic kiss to a dying empire
"The Chevalier of the Rose," which premiered in Dresden in 1911, is Richard Strauss's best known and most loved opera.
“I kill a man…/I love a man…”: The Emile Griffith jazz opera
Of the hundreds of opera performances I have attended over a lifetime, rarely have I been so emotionally stirred as I was by this one.
A new opera focuses on Frau Schindler of “List” fame
In three acts, the opera features more than 20 roles, plus chorus, in scenes that alternate between the Schindler home and the factory.
“Moby-Dick”: Melville’s masterpiece gets an operatic treatment
Although it has some fishy alterations, this is a mind-blowing production.
Today in history: Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" in Berlin, 1945
"A political prisoner's wife goes undercover, infiltrates the family of the prison guard and frees her husband from a secret dungeon just as the tyrant is about to kill him."
Two kids reclaim the world in new opera “Second Nature”
May "Second Nature" find a second production in another community soon. It's a remarkable work.
