Why is this the most frequently performed opera worldwide? Perhaps it is because it is based on real people whose concerns – family expectations, illness and mortality, love versus duty […]
The seeming premise of the opera that “women are like that” has challenged and provoked both audiences and directors for over two centuries. To some, broad disguises and comic deceptions […]
Benjamin Britten’s 1954 adaptation of Henry James’ classic 1898 gothic novella about malevolent spirits haunting (perhaps) innocent children retains the mysterious ambiguities of the original story. Are the ghosts hallucinations […]
This extraordinary and multi-dimensional opera combines and contrasts the low-brow appeal of popular comedy as expressed in the Commedia dell’arte with the high seriousness of a penetrating interpretation of Greek […]
