Features, Articles, News, Analysis, Reviews, Interviews, Profiles in Opera Now 2004-2019 and Classical Music magazine and Festival Guide
Opera Now 2019
January
World Premiere Review: Schoenberg in Hollywood, Boston Lyric
Opera, Paramount Theater, MA
February
Company
Profile, Verdi Festival, Parma, Italy
Opera Now 2018
January
Feature: Weekend in Sarasota, Opera Sarasota, Florida
Review: Der
Freischütz, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
Article Travel: Canary Islands, Opera Tenerife
February
Feature: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
Company profile: New Orleans Opera, Louisiana
Article: Letter from Tenerife, Canary Islands
Review: Orphèe aux Enfers, New Orleans Opera, Mahilia
Jackson Theater, Louisiana
Review: Inauguration of season Andrea Chenier, Teatro
alla Scala, Milan, Italy
March
Article: Preview Festival O18, Opera Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Article: Company Profile Wolf Trap, Wolf Trap Opera,
Vienna, VIrginia
April
Review: Don Carlo, Washington National Opera, Kennedy
Center, D.C.
Article: Preview Festival d’Opera de Quebec, Quebec City,
Canada
May
Review: Orfeo ed Euridice, Florida Grand Opera, Ziff
Opera House, Miami
June
Article: Weekend
in Parma, Festival Verdi, Teatro Regio, Teatro Verdi Busseto, Italy
Review Roundup: Sarasota Opera Festival, Florida
September
Review, Magic Flute, Festival d’Opera de Quebec, Quebec
City, Canada
World Premiere
Review, El Cristo di Elqui, Opera Nacional de Chile, Santiago
October
Article: Letter from Valencia, Palau des Artes, Spain
November
Review Roundup, Festival O18, Opera Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Opera Now 2017
January
Feature: Weekend in Santiago, Chile
Review: The Greek, Boston Lyric Opera, Paramount Theater,
Massachusetts
February
Feature: Weekend in Boston, Massachusetts
World Premiere Review: Dictator’s Wife, Washington
National Opera, Kennedy Center, D.C.
Review Inauguration of season Madama Butterfly, Teatro
alla Scala, Milan, Italy
April
Company Profile, Opera Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feature: Letter from Quebec, L’Opera de Quebec, Canada
World Premier Review: Riders of the Purple Sage, Arizona
Opera, Tucson
Review: Dead Man Walking, Washington National Opera,
Kennedy Center, D.C.
May
Feature: Festival Focus, Sarasota Opera, Florida
September
Feature: International Verdi Voices competition, Parma/Busseto,
Italy
Article: Guest Editor Sinfonia por el Peru, Lima
December
Festival
Roundup Verdi Festival, Parma, Italy
November
World Premiere Review: Breaking the Waves, Opera
Philadelphia, Kimmel Center, Pennsylvania
December
Interview: Puccini
Cycle at Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Festival
Round-up, Verdi Festival, Parma, Italy
Opera Now 2016
January
Preview: Travel, Quebec, Canada; Santiago, Chile
February
Review: Don Carlo, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires
Review: I due Foscari, Teatro Municipal, Santiago
April
Review: Prince of Players, world premiere, Houston Grand Opera
May
Reviews: Sarasota Opera Festival, Aida, Battle di Legnano
News: Letter from Miami
Feature: Rising American singers
July/August
Review: La fanciualla del West, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
November Review: World premiere, Break the Waves, Opera Philadelphia December Interview: Puccini Cycle, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly Review: Don Carlo, Giovanna d'Arco, Verdi Festival Parma, Italy
Classical Music 2016
Feature: Iitti Festival, Iitti, Finland - May
Opinion piece-Private vs public funding - August
Website articles 2016
Review: Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House, London, UK
Review: Amleto, Falstaff, Delaware Opera Festival
Review: Better Gods, world premiere, Washington National Opera
Review: Glass vs Glass-Appomattox (revised world premiere) Washington Opera-Penal Colony Boston Lyric Opera
Opera Now 2015
January
Review, Postcard from Morocco, Cape Town Opera, South Africa
April
World Premiere review, Enemies: A Love Story, Palm Beach Opera, Florida
Feature: North American Summer Festival Guide
May
Feature: Weekend in Chicago
Feature: Landmark Series-Midwest USA
Round-up Sarasota Opera Festival, Florida
July-August
Newspiece Opera America Conference
Review: La Ciocara, world premiere, San Francsico Opera
December
Preview, Fort Worth Opera, JFK
Feature: Weekend in Philadelphia
Classical Music Magazine and Festival Guide 2015
Feature:Solti Foundation
Feature: Sibelius 150 anniversary festival Lahti
Website articles 2015
World premiere review Penny, Washington National Opera, DC
Review: Space Opera, world premiere, Poznan Opera, Poland
Der fliegende Hollander, Washington National Opera, DC
Review, Halka, Poznan Opera, Poland
Feature: Sibelius Festival 2105, Lahti, Finland Review: Don Carlo, Opera Philadelphia
Opera Now 2014
January
News and Notes: Letter from Florida, Florida Grand Opera, Sarasota Opera
Review, Parsifal, Teatr Wielki, Poznan, Poland
Review, Lizzie Borden, Boston Lyric Opera
June
Feature, Libiamo, Opera in California
Review, Sarasota Opera Festival Round-up
Review, No Exit, Florida Grand Opera, Miami
September
Round-up, Quebec Opera Festival, Verdi's Requiem, L'Enfant et les sortileges
Company Profile: Opera Philadelphia
December
Solti Foundation-Conductor Residency Program at Florentine Opera
Opera Now website articles 2014
Review, Rienzi, Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
Review, Ubu Rex, Baltic Opera, Gdansk, Poland
Review, Giulio Cesare, Wolf Trap Opera
World Premiere Review, Trans Mahgrab, Bregrenz Opera Festival, Austria
Review, Florencia en el Amazonas, Washington National Opera
Review, Sweeney Todd, Virginia Opera Review: Trans Mahgreb, world premiere, Bregenz Festival
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Opera Now 2013
January
Review, Parsifal, Deutsche Opera, Berlin, Germany
February
Letter from Washington, Washington National Opera
Review, Der ferne Klang, Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg, France
Review, Manon Lescaut, Polish National Opera, Warsaw, Poland
April
Feature-Highlights of 2013 USA Summer Festivals
June
Preview, Quebec Opera Festival
Review, Sarasota Opera Festival Roundup
July/August
Review, Aspen Papers, Dallas Opera
October
Feature, Postcard -US Deep South
Review, Galileo, Galilei, Aida, Cincinnati Opera Festival
Review, Our Town, Il barbieri di Siviglia, Central City Opera Festival
November
Review, Dolores Claiborne (World Premiere), San Francisco Opera
December
Review, Italy Round-up: Aida, Don Carlos, La Scala, Milan; Nabucco, Teatro Comunale, Bologna, I Masnadieri, Teatro Regio, Parma.
Opera Now website articles 2013
Review-Fliegender Hollander, Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Review-Tristan und Isolde, Canadian Opera Company
Feature-Florida Grand Opera, New Direction, New General Director, New Era, Mourning Becomes Electra
Reviews-Norma, Manon Lescaut, Washington National Opera
Review-Cyberiada-premiere-Teatr Wielki, Poznan Poland
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Review-Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Tales of Hoffman, Cosi fan tutte, San Francisco Opera
Review-Powder Her Face, Damnation of Faust, Festival d’Opera Quebec
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Opera Now 2012
February,
Company Profile – Anchorage Opera, Alaska
Review – Silent Night (world premiere) Minnesota Opera, Minneapolis
March
Postcard from the East Coast USA
Company Focus – Sarasota Opera and 30 Years Victor De Rienzi, Florida
Review – Macbeth, Boston Lyric Opera, Massachusetts
September
Review – Nabucco, Washington National Opera, District of Colombia
October
Festival Review – The Tempest, Nelligan, Le Jeu de Robin et Marion, Tangopera, Quebec Opera Festival
December
Company Profile – Boston Lyric Opera, Massachusetts
Opera Now 2011
January/February
Company Feature: Florentine Opera, Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
Review: Salome, Washington National Opera (Washington, D.C.)
March/April
Travel Feature: Postcard from Montevideo, Teatro Solís (Uruguary)
Festival Feature: Opera New Jersey, Princeton
May/June/July
Travel Feature: Postcard from New Orleans
Singer Profile: David Daniels
August/September
Review: Die tote Stadt, Finnish National Opera (Helsinki)
Review: Maria Padilla, Opera Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
Review World Premiere: The Inspector, Wolf Trap Opera (Vienna, Virginia)
Review Revised World Premiere: Cyrano, Florida Grand Opera (Miami, Florida)
October
Review: Goetterdaemmerung, San Francisco Opera
News: Washington National Opera becomes part of Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington DC)
November
Feature Opera and Architecture: Rapid Reaction, Chile's Teatro Municipal, Santiago, Chile
Feature Opera and Architecture: Glory Days, Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Feature Technology at the Opera, Atlanta Opera, Porgy and Bess, Georgia
News and Notes: Finnish National Opera Celebrates 100 Years, Helsinki, Finland
December
News and Notes: Inauguration of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.
Website articles 2012 www.operanow.co.uk
Lohengrin, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Don Carlo, Savolinna Opera Festival 2011, Finland January 2012
La Rondine, Florida Grand Opera, Miami, March 2012
Vanessa, Carmen, Otello, Lucia di Lammermoor, Sarasota Opera Festival, Florida, April 2012
Einstein on the Beach, Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada, June 2012
Slaying the Dragon (world premiere) Central City Opera Theater, Philadelphia , June 2012
Mighty Casey, RIgoletto, Opera Saratoga Festival, Saratoga Springs, New York, August 2012
Anna Bolena, Washington National Opera, District of Columbia, September 2012
Website articles 2011 www.operanow.co.uk
Cyrano (world premiere), Florida Grand Opera, Miami, May 2011
Ring Cycle, San Francisco Opera, California, June 2011
Pearl Fishers, New Orleans Opera, Louisiana, June 2011
One Night Stand (world premiere) Helsinki, Finland, December 2011
Opera Now 2010
January / February
Travel feature: Postcard from Brazil, Teatro Municipal do Sao Paulo
Interview: Vitalij Kowaljow
Review: Sarasota Opera Festival: Don Carlos, L'amico Fritz, L'elisir d'amore, Tosca (Sarasota, Florida)
Review: Chautauqua Opera Il trovatore (Chautauqua, New York)
March/April
Review: Orfeo ed Euridice, Atlanta Opera
May/June
Travel Feature: Opera Fairbanks (Fairbanks, Alaska)
Feature: Pittsburgh Opera (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Feature: Small USA companies roundup
Opera Vivente (Baltimore, Maryland); Opera To Go (Juneau, Alaska); Opera Providence (Providence, Rhode Island)
News Feature: Florida Grand Opera celebrates Robert Heuer 25 years (Miami, Florida)
Review: Madame White Snake (world premiere) Opera Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
Review: Orpheus (world premiere) Opera Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee
July/August
Travel Company Feature: Hawaiian Opera Theater, Honolulu
News feature: Teatro Colon reopening
Festival Review: world premiere Unicamente la Verdad, Festival of Mexico, Mexico City
Review: Elmer Gantry, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
September/October
Feature: Opening of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Preview of world premiere: Rio de Sangre, Don Davis-composer
November/December
Feature Professional Pages: How opera is surviving the recession
Review: Zaide, Wolf Trap Opera, Vienna, Virginia
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OPERA NOW 2004 - 2009
Travel
Postcard from Chile. Teatro Municipal de Santiago. November/December 2009
Opera Watch: Opera companies in USA's South East region. May/June 2009
Company Profile: Long Beach Opera. May/June 2009
Postcard from Helsinki. Finnish National Opera. January/February 2009
Opera Watch: New England USA. May/June 2008
Company Profile: Nashville Opera. May/June 2008
Postcard from Mexico. Palacio de Bellas Artes. May/June 2008
In the Footsteps of the Great Composers -Italy. January/February 2008 --COVER FEATURE
Company Profile: Madison Opera. September/October 2007
Opera Watch: Italy's smaller regional houses. September/October 2007
Inauguration of the Ziff Ballet-Opera House, Miami. March/April 2007
Washington National Opera celebrates its 50th. January/February 2006 --COVER FEATURE
Company Profile: Chautauqua Opera (New York). January/February 2006
Rich and Rare: Italy's rich operatic heritage. July/August 2005
La Fenice: Its gala reopening. March/April 2004
A short history of Italian Opera House Restoration. March/April 2004
News, Comment and Analysis
Opera Latinoamerica. September/October 2009
Letter from Italy: Financial crisis in the Italian opera world. July/August 2009
Survival Tactics: Financial crisis at America opera houses. May/June 2009
New Orleans Opera moves back home: Reopening of Mahalia Jackson PAC. March/April 2009
Waiting game at Bari's Teatro Petruzzelli. March/April 2009
New Era for Boston Lyric Opera. January/February 2009
Who's Hot with young singers. November/December 2008
Opening Night at the Sarasota Opera: Reopening of Sarasota Opera House. May/June 2008
La Scala seat debacle. May/June 2008
All change at the Finnish National Opera. January/February 2008
Glimmerglass Opera's new general director, Michael MacLeod. January/February 2008
Who?s Hot with young singers. November/December 2007
Home at Last for the Atlanta Opera: Inauguration of Cobb PAC September/October 2007
Opera America annual conference report. July/August 2007
Fenice arsonist arrested in Mexico. May/June 2007
A new opera house in Brindisi (Italy). March/April 2007
La Scala's new dress code. March/April 2007
Funding: Opera in the USA. March/April 2007
Bari Opera House dispute. January/February 2007
La Fenice find friends abroad. November/December 2006
Cut Price: Italian Budget Cuts. July/August 2006
Wolf Trap spells out US arts role. May/June 2006
Funding Cuts threaten future of opera in Italy. January/February 2006
All together now:OperaBoston and Boston Lyric Opera. January/February 2006
Italy plays musical chairs. November/December 2005
Who's Hot with young singers. November/December 2005
Vilar's mighty fall. July/August 2005
Trouble at the top: La Scala and Muti's falling out. May/June 2005
Washington's Opera-Film Festival. May/June 2005
Pavarotti as teacher. January/February 2005
Capital gains: Washington Opera become WNO, September/October 2004
Letter from Boston. Spirit of cooperation needed. May/June 2004
Reviews
Don Giovanni, Festival de Mexico en centro historico, Mexico City. September/October 2009
La traviata, Teatro Municipal, Santiago (Chile). September/October 2009
Nos, OperaBoston. July/August 2009
Rusalka, Boston Lyric Opera. July/August 2009
Lucrezia Borgia, Washington National Opera. May/June 2009
Der Freischutz, OperaBoston. March/April 2009
Manon, New Orleans Opera, published on web site 2009
Manon, Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato (Mexico). January/February 2009
Don Giovanni, Operavivente, Baltimore. January/February 2009
(Book) Sarah Caldwell: The First Woman of Opera. January/February 2009
Il trittico, Los Angeles Opera. November/December 2008
Rigoletto - I due Foscari - La Rondine, Sarasota Opera Festival. November/December 2008
The Cunning Little Vixen, Chautauqua Opera. (New York) November/December 2008
Gianni Schicchi/Buoso's Ghost, Lake George Opera, Saratoga (New York) November/December 2008
Un giorno di regno, Wolf Trap Opera, Vienna (Virginia). November/December 2008
Jenufa, Festival de Mexico en centro historico, Mexico City. November/December 2008
Ernani, OperaBoston. September/October 2008
Tamerlano, Washington National Opera. July/August 2008
Semele, OperaBoston. May/June 2008
L?elisir d?amore, Boston Lyric Opera. May/June 2008
Lucia di Lammermoor, Compania Nacional de Opera, Mexico City. March/April 2008
Macbeth, Washington National Opera. March/April 2008
La forza del destino, Baltimore Opera. January/February 2008
La boheme/ Don Giovanni, Washington National Opera. January/February 2008
A Florentine Tragedy/The Dwarf. Bard Summerscape (New York) November/December 2007
L'elisir d'amore, Chautauqua Opera. (New York) November/December 2007
Werther, Chautauqua Opera. (New York) November/December 2007
La boheme, Lake George Opera, Saratoga (New York) November/December 2007
Tartuffe, Lake George Opera, Saratoga (New York) November/December 2007
Volpone, Wolf Trap Opera. November/December 2007
Susannah, Virginia Opera. September/October 2007
Un ballo in maschera, Boston Lyric Opera. July/August 2007
Pearl Fisher, OperaBoston. July/August 2007
Die Walkure, Washington National Opera. July/August 2007
Armide/Armide, Opera Lafayette (Washington DC). July/August 2007
Rise and Fall City of Mahagonny, OperaBoston. May/June 2007\Maskarade, Royal Danish Opera (Copenhagen). May/June 2007
Bluebeard's Castle/Gianni Schicchi, Washington National Opera. March/April 2007
Assedio di Corinthe - Nabucco, Baltimore Opera. March/April 2007
La clemenza di Tito, OperaBoston. March/April 2007
Tosca, Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona (Italy). March/April 2007
Armide, Israeli Opera. March/April 2007
Aida, Florda Grand Opera. January/February 2007
Don Giovanni, Portopera (Maine). January/February 2007
La traviata, Los Angeles Opera. January/February 2007
Manon, Los Angeles Opera. January/February 2007
Sophie's Choice, Washington National Opera. (American Premiere) January/February 2007
Vanessa, Chautauqua Opera (New York). January/February 2007
Genoveva, Bard Summerscape, (New York). November/December 2006
Pagliacci/Il maestro di cappella, Lake George Opera (New York) November/December 2006.
Barbiere di Siviglia, Lake George Opera (New York) November/December 2006.
Orpheus (Telemann), Wolf Trap Opera, (Vienna, VA). September/October 2006
Das Rheingold, Washington National Opera. September/October 2006
50th Anniversary Celebration, Washington National Opera. September/October 2006
Porgy and Bess, Washington National Opera. September/October 2006
Angels in America, Opera Unlimited Festival (Boston). September/October 2006
L?etoile, OperaBoston. July/August 2006
Lucrezia Borgia, OperaBoston. July/August 2006
El retablo de maese Pedro. Kennedy Center (Washington DC). March/April 2006
I vespri siciliani, Washington National Opera. January/February 2006
The Consul, OperaBoston. January/February 2006
The Tender Land - Regina, Bard Summerscape (New York). November/December 2005
Crucible, OperaBoston. July/August 2005
Tristan und Isolde, Virginia Opera. May/June 2005
L?italiana in algeri, Boston Lyric Opera. March/April 2005
Andrea Chenier, Washington National Opera. January/February 2005
Falstaff (Salieri) Wolf Trap Opera. November/December 2004
Don Quixote in Sierra Morena, Bel Canto at Caramoor (New York) November/December 2004
L'elisir d'amore, Lake George Opera (New York). November/December 2004
Candide, Lake George Opera (New York). November/December 2004
Romeo et Juliette, Opera North (New Hampshire). November/December 2004
A Midsummer Night?s Dream, Opera North (New Hampshire). November/December 2004
A Hand of Bridge/A Game of Chance/Trouble in Tahiti, Berkshire Opera. November/December 2004
Manon Lescaut, Washington National Opera. July/August 2004
Nixon in China, OperaBoston, July/August 2004
Rigoletto, Virginia Opera. July/August 2004
Fidelio, Virginia Opera. July/August 2004
Un ballo in maschera, Teatro delle Muse, Ancona (Italy). May/June 2004
Cosi fan tutte, Teatro del Giglio, Lucca (Italy). May/June 2004
Barbiere di Siviglia, Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna (Italy). May/June 2004
Rigoletto, Boston Lyric Opera. March/April 2004
Norma, Washington Opera. January/February 2004
World Premieres
Treemonisha, Opera Memphis. *revised version by Michael Ching. July/August 2009
Grapes of Wrath, Pittsburgh Opera. *revised version. March/April 2009
Elmer Gantry, Nashville Opera. May/June 2008
Later that same evening, Maryland Opera Studio. May/June 2008
Anna Karenina, Miami Opera. July/August 2007
Preview of Anna Karenina. March/April 2007
Our Town, Lake George Opera, Saratoga (New York) November/December 2006
Boris Goudenow (Mattheson), Boston Early Music Festival. September/October 2005
Democracy, Washington National Opera. May/June 2005
Clara, Maryland Opera Studio. July/August 2004
Profiles
James Conlon, music director of the Los Angeles Opera. September/October 2007
The First Emperor of Opera, Placido Domingo. March/April 2007 COVER FEATURE
Stephen Lord, former music director of Boston Lyric Opera. January/February 2007
Interviews
Leon Botstein, president of Bard College/director Summerscape Festival. November/December 2007
Osvaldo Golijov, composer. January/February 2006
Technology
Paolo Micciche: Pioneer of Special Effects in Opera. November/December 2009
Technology and Opera: acoustic design. July/August 2007
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