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A woman in a pink gown with a large feathered collar sits next to a vanity with a mirror. She has an angry expression on her face. One hand is balled into a fist and the other is pointing to the person next to her on the right, who is a man disguised as a nun, clutching a set of black rosary beads in his hands.

The Don and the Count

by Deanna Isaacs November 14, 2022November 16, 2022

Deeply committed Verdi fans ought to get themselves to Lyric Opera’s first ever production of Don Carlos, the four-hour, five-act, 1867 French language version of the shorter Verdi opera they already know as the Italian language Don Carlo. This love vs. duty tale of historical fiction, loosely drawn from the life of a 16th-century Spanish […]

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One gorgeous fish out of water: Lyric Opera’s Rusalka

by Deanna Isaacs February 26, 2014August 18, 2021

Lyric Opera’s Rusalka is as stunning to watch as it is to hear.