Some things are worth the wait. Count Lyric Opera’s “Don Carlos” among them. Wednesday night marked the first time in the company’s nearly 70-year history that Lyric Opera presented not the Italian ...
Rare is the opera that continues to be performed in two languages, but the exigencies of the Paris Opera have imprinted that legacy on a handful of works. Many are mid-nineteenth-century Italian ...
NEW YORK — Before plunging us nearly five hours deep and as many centuries back into Verdi’s 1867 masterpiece “Don Carlos,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb wanted to ensure we were all ...