James M. Keller On Saturday night, Santa Fe Opera unveiled the last of the five new productions that make up its 56th season: Richard Strauss’ Arabella, in which an unlikely operetta plot sits ...
Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna. Meet Ralph Lee Abraham, the CDC’s new second-in-command who believes the Affordable Care Act should be repealed and ...
The result is an opera that is undoubtedly uneven: the first act is beautifully balanced, the final two – occasionally elided in a ‘two act’ version grudgingly sanctioned by Strauss – feel rather more ...