Jun 15, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Tuesday, June 14, 2020 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Even before curtain-up, the seventh revival of this production of Puccini’s “Japanese tragedy” has generated some media attention. In consultation with various Japanese...
Jun 7, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Photo, Mihaela Bodlovic Monday, June 6, 2022 Silk Street Theatre, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Monteverdi’s “three person drama” Il combattimento di Trancredi e Clorinda (Venice Carnival season, 1624) draws its libretto from Tasso’s La...
Jun 5, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
“Raehann Bryce-Davis as Baba the Turk and Ben Bliss as Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress” Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Friday, June 3, 2022Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski...
Jun 3, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Longborough, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed There were two things in Amy Lane’s new production of Part Three of The Ring that delivered much with almost casual simplicity. The staging is part of...
May 25, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 St George’s Church, Hanover Square, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Handel has long been acknowledged as one of music’s great survivors, as he adapted with chameleonic ease the changing fortunes and fashions of the different contexts in...
May 24, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Unexpected
Due to a temporary hiatus in posting reviews on Classical Source, I, Colin, as the site’s editor, am adding some of the so-far-unpublished edited copy here and in serendipitous fashion. *** Curtis Rogers London Handel Festival & St Martin in the Fields...