In 2025’s Love & Power, the Boston Early Music Festival Unearths Another Baroque Rarity Each edition of the festival mounts as its centerpiece a fully staged revival of a near-forgotten opera—in 2025, BEMF chose Reinhard Keiser’s 'Octavia.' By Christopher Corwin
Two Symphony Orchestras Tackle Wagner’s Supreme Masterpiece and Strauss’s First Opera with Mixed Results The American Symphony Orchestra returned recently to Carnegie Hall with the underrated 'Guntram,' championed by conductor Leon Botstein. By Christopher Corwin
In the Met’s Many Revivals, Sometimes Second Casts Finish First In many cases, the second, third and even fourth casts surpassed the season premieres that tend to attract the most attention. By Christopher Corwin
The Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda By Gabrielle Ferrari
‘Moby-Dick’ Sails Confidently into the Met, and the Exhilarating Optimism of ‘Fidelio’ Arrives Just in Time By Christopher Corwin