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After the O17: A reflection on Opera Philadelphia’s brave endeavor

Margaret Darby September 29, 2017 1 Comment

This bountiful menu of music had something for every taste

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Your guide to Opera Philadelphia’s O17 Festival

Cameron Kelsall August 27, 2017 No Comments

Here’s everything you need to know about the musical smorgasbord that awaits.

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Features Fringe Festival Interviews Music Theater

Opera Innovator: An Interview with David Devan ahead of the O17 Festival

Cameron Kelsall August 15, 2017 No Comments

Opera Philadelphia’s innovative general director previews the upcoming O17 Festival.

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Soloists of the Metropolitan Opera (Philadelphia Chamber Music Society): The cream of the crop

Cameron Kelsall May 15, 2017 No Comments

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society imported a deep bench of talent from New York for its final Sunday afternoon recital of the season.

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LA RONDINE (Curtis Opera Theatre): Puccini’s elusive swallows flies to Philly

Cameron Kelsall April 30, 2017 1 Comment

Curtis Opera Theatre fails to make the case for LA RONDINE as a neglected classic.

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Opera in Sketch: BREAKING THE WAVES

Chuck Schultz October 8, 2016 No Comments

This opera was really something else. An adaptation by Mizzy Mazzolli (music) and Royce Vavrek (libretto) of a movie by Lars von Trier.

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BREAKING THE WAVES (Opera Philadelphia): A Lars von Trier opera makes a splash

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper October 1, 2016 No Comments

An operatic version of a Lars von Trier movie? Yes.

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OSCAR (Opera Philadelphia): High notes and low in the life of Oscar Wilde

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 12, 2015 No Comments

We see the tragedy of Oscar Wilde’s life played out creatively and movingly in OSCAR, a thoughtfully crafted opera by Theodore Morrison and John Cox,

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SEPHRO: EARTH’S REVENGE (Fantasy Weavers): Fringe Review 23

JB Farley September 9, 2014 4 Comments

Imagine if Frank Herbert’s “Dune” had been adapted not by David Lynch but instead by the Mummers. That’s not too far off from what we get with SEPHRO: EARTH’S REVENGE.

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