United States William Kentridge, The Great Yes, The Great No: The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 6.2.2025. (JRo)
The poetry of acceptance and resistance in Kentridge’s The Great Yes, The Great No in Beverly Hills
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
MasterVoices probes crime and punishment in Blind Injustice
United States Scott Davenport Richards, Blind Injustice: Soloists, MasterVoices, Orchestra / Ted Sperling (conductor). Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York, 3.2.2025. (RP)
An uneven staging of Eugene Onegin at Madrid’s Teatro Real
Spain Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real / Gustavo Gimeno (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 3.2.2025. (JMI)
A delightful performance of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites in Valencia
Spain Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmelites: Soloists, Chorus Generalitat Valenciana, Orchestra Comunitat Valenciana / Riccardo Minasi (conductor). Palau de Les Arts, Valencia, 2.2.2025. (JMI)
Opera Philadelphia’s The Anonymous Lover is lighter than air
United States Bologne, The Anonymous Lover: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Philadelphia / Kalena Bovell (conductor). Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 31.1.2025. (RP)
Lise Davidsen is delightfully diva-ish in Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s ironic Vienna Ariadne auf Naxos
Austria Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Soloists, Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Cornelius Meister (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Jasmina Eleta) from the Vienna State Opera, 28.1.2025. (JPr)
A poetic and transcendent performance of Los Angeles Ballet’s Memoryhouse
United States Max Richter (composer), Melissa Barak (choreographer), Memoryhouse: Dancers of Los Angeles Ballet. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 30,1.2025. (JRo)
In the week marking Auschwitz’s liberation, Pavel Haas’s The Charlatan gets a memorable Ostrava staging
Czech Republic Pavel Haas, Šarlatán (The Charlatan): Soloists, Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre/ Jiří Habart (conductor). Antonin Dvořák Theatre, Ostrava, 24.1.2025. (GT)
