The beginning of Act 1 sees the airport in the very early hours of the morning, capturing the dreamy, ethereal stillness of a world on the brink of awakening. Soprano Jennifer France, as the God-like ...

Driven by propulsive motor rhythms and percussion ticks, Dove’s score has the same slick statelessness as Andrew Riley’s designs. Here a bit of Copland (alright, a lot of Copland), there some Ravel, a ...

The first opera I ever saw was Der Meistersinger by Richard Wagner. It was a concert opera, performed in San Francisco in 1986, in parallel with The Ring Cycle, his legendary, greatest work. The show ...