If the purpose of West Edge Opera”s Opera Medium Rare series is to introduce audiences to seldom-performed works, then Saturday afternoon”s performance of “Poliuto” was an unqualified success. And if ...

But on the strength – and strength of appropriately gladiatorial proportions it really is – of Glyndebourne's exceptional cast, Poliuto may yet make its case as a classic: a sober meditation on faith ...

Usually, when long-neglected works somehow find their way to the forefront, we find there’s a pretty good reason for the lack of interest. Happily for us, this did not apply to Donizetti’s POLIUTO, ...

Creativity and resourcefulness continue to run high on the Bay Area’s vibrant classical music scene. A prime example is the modestly financed East Bay-based West Edge Opera. Under the directorship of ...

From the opening scene of massive grey pillars on which are projected videos of war-torn Sarajevo, the staging is in stark contrast to the gorgeous imagery that director/designer team of Mariame ...

Bel canto, or “beautiful singing,” can be applied to most operas, but it has come to describe the hundreds of Italian works composed during the first half of the 19th century. Most have languished ...

Based on Corneille's French Neoclassical tragedy Polyeucte, the opera follows the life of the early Christian martyr Saint Polyeuctus (d. 259 AD), but has a human love story at its core. Persecuted by ...

Anyone hoping for a repeat of director Mariame Clément's ebullient 2013 Don Pasquale will be disappointed by the sombre, monolithic visuals on offer here. There's not a toga or a lion in sight for a ...

If the purpose of West Edge Opera’s Opera Medium Rare series is to introduce audiences to seldom-performed works, then Saturday afternoon’s performance of “Poliuto” was an unqualified success. And if ...

If the purpose of West Edge Opera’s Opera Medium Rare series is to introduce audiences to seldom-performed works, then Saturday afternoon’s performance of “Poliuto” was an unqualified success. And if ...

When Donizetti’s Poliuto was first seen in New York, it was called “the operatic event of the year” – Glyndebourne’s staging of it as the opening production of the 2015 Festival does not exactly merit ...