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Tokyo, Japan · TokyoJosef E. Köpplinger’s 2005 production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia celebrated its fifth revival in Tokyo this year. At the matinee on June 1st, the NNTT was filled with a somewhat younger and less formally attired audience than usual. There was a palpable sense of “Let’s enjoy this light-hearted comedy together” in the air, creating a marked contrast to other performances, where a more serious mood of anticipation has predominated. Based…Read Article
A Captivating Il barbiere di Siviglia at the New National Theatre Tokyo

Buckinghamshire · BuckinghamshireWhen Tchaikovsky’s card-game opera first appeared at London’s Drury Lane Theatre in 1915, it was announced by The Times as ‘a romance’. That’s marketing for you and pushing things a bit far, even with Pushkin’s original novella of 1833, where Lisa marries a dull functionary, while the anti-hero Herman, diminished by his gambling addiction, is confined to a mental asylum. Nothing so unsensational in Tchaikovsky’s reimagining who, with his brother…Read Article
Emphatic singing characterises much of Garsington’s darkly imagined Queen of Spades

San Francisco, California · San FranciscoRecalling a very dark moment in San Francisco’s history, Michael Korie and Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk Reimagined [for small operatic forces], arrived, via St. Louis, finally in San Francisco. This 1978 massacre remains, still, an open wound in San Francisco, a wound that art cannot heal, a wound exacerbated by the current culture wars, with San Francisco, as usual, the avant-garde. Back in 1996 when the Christopher Alden Houston production of…Read Article