Director Robert Falls’ signature maximalism is still with us, I am happy to report, even though Chicago’s most important theatrical auteur exited the Goodman Theatre in 2022. That’s by virtue of opera ...

On Saturday, October 10, the Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 2026–27 season with a revival of Robert Falls’s 2014 ...

The San Diego Opera performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni on Sunday, February 4, was good, overall. It definitely wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great. It was good. The singing was good to pretty good. None ...

The current production of “Don Giovanni” at the Metropolitan Opera, running through March 6th, is the opera of the moment, a profoundly political and moral vision that’s as much of our time as of ...

ANCHOR INTRO: San Diego Opera opened Don Giovanni over the weekend. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says the production uses the visual design to frame the title character in new ways. CLIP Opening ...