I really love the Spring offerings from Yale Opera. They are cleverly done, especially considering that they are performed in Sprague Hall, which, while a beautiful concert… Read more “Yale Spring Opera/The Old Maid and the Thief/Le Rossignol”

Founded in 2007, the Yale Baroque Opera Project performed its fifteenth operatic production this past weekend at the University Theatre, to a filled house of enthusiastic Baroque… Read more “Yale Baroque Opera Project/Orfeo”

  Angel Romero loves food. And he KNOWS food. He also possesses a sublime, natural set of pipes and an easy placement that produce a lyric, sweet… Read more “Angel Romero/Life is a Banquet”

I confess that I have complained about the lack of comedy in the Yale Rep calendars over the past few years.  I love a good drama as… Read more “Twelfth Night/Yale Rep”

robert Johnson lived for just 27 years, WROTE 29 songs, and changed the direction of music, forever. Born in 1911 in the heart of the Mississippi Delta,… Read more “CALL ME FROM THE GRAVE/Music and lyrics by Charlie Romano”

Onegin is a terrible person. He is conceited, selfish, and foolishly naïve about how love works. He humiliates a woman who has expressed her love for him,… Read more “EUGENE ONEGIN/YALE OPERA AT THE SHUBERT”

I grew up in a family where music and records were a big part of our quality time together.  The promise of a trip to Sam Goody’s… Read more “The Psychology of Opera”

Lauren McQuistin is a woman with a big voice, a huge heart, and enormous determination and courage. While in her undergraduate years at the Royal Conservatoire in… Read more “Fasten Your Seat-belts”

Proving once again, that Carmina Burana can always draw a crowd, the New Haven Symphony played to a sold out Woolsey Hall on November 8th. The first half… Read more “New Haven Symphony Orchestra”

Yale Opera kicked off their 2018-2019 season with a showcase, highlighting some impressive voices and giving us a glimpse into their Schubert “mainstage” production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene… Read more “Yale Opera 2018-1019”