Customer Review: Yes, previous reviewers are correct, the great lady is past her prime. IT DOESN'T MATTER. She is still the best singer on the stage and her acting as well as her stage manners are exemplary. She gives ... Read More
Customer Review: Sutherland really should have opted out and done herself -- and this production -- a favor. I simply couldn't get into it (and this is my favorite opera!) because she was just too huge and horsey. The dashing Danillo ... Read More
Customer Review: I was terribly disappointed with the Met version because Eva came across as a simple flirty airhead. We know Wagner did not want that. This was probably the director's fault. The Eva in this Australian version was far more eloquent ... Read More
Customer Review: We immediately realize that this in not a traditional Hansel and Gretel, when we see Hansel playing with his yo-yo, and his stepmother in hair curlers, smoking a cigarette.
But don't let this scare you off. It's just a performance that ... Read More
Customer Review: To the Gilbert and Sullivan purists: It's ok, this was never meant to be taken seriously, even Sullivan didn't like his operettas very much. It's a tradition in G&S to modernize the "little list," exactly because Gilbert was writing to a specific audience. And in these inclusive ... Read More