Zachary Woolfe
With Updates, Opera Rolls the Dice: Sin City Would Have Been a Fine Setting for Rigoletto, if Rigoletto Had Showed Up
Crazy Good: What Makes a Diva a Diva?
Directionless: Shaggy, Good-Natured and Beloved by Millions, One Direction Just Can’t Dance
Alden Drops the Ballo: His Milquetoast Take on Verdi’s Classic Fizzles at the Met
Mise en Abyme: Robert Lepage’s Concept-Production of Thomas Adès’s Tempest at the Met Disappoints
You Say You Want a Revolution? Don’t Look for It in L’Elisir d’Amore
High Drama at Season’s End: Peter Gelb Bludgeoned His Critics, and Fabio Luisi Had a Too-Light Touch
School for Lovers: Christopher Alden Delivers Another Gift at City Opera With Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte
A Lot of Trouble for Trouble in Tahiti, and It Was Worth It: The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Works Wonders With Bernstein’s Opera
