Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Joining Radvanovsky is tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea's husband, Giasone ...
Marshall Pynkoski, co-artistic director of Toronto's Opera Atelier, is fond of quoting Jean Cocteau on the question of style in art. In so many words, Cocteau said that style is something you aim with ...
With his company Lost Dog, Duke has a gift for the flipside of stories. As in his award-winning, one-man Paradise Lost, he looks for the cracks in a narrative, levering them open to find comedy and ...
2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Hell hath no fury like a sorceress scorned. This centuries-old tale burns with ...
Some of the most memorable operas revolve around family drama. Medea, written by Luigi Cherubini in the late 18th century, is based on the ancient Greek play by Euripides and the work of French ...
Recent interest in Medea operas began somewhat before Callas-centenary fever broke out when the Metropolitan Opera opened last season with Sondra Radvanovsky starring in its first-ever mounting of ...
The first time Sondra Radvanovsky opened the Metropolitan Opera season, she played a mother who contemplates murdering her two young sons as revenge against her faithless lover. Five year later she’s ...
Medea, in all its forms, is a divorce story intimately concerned with the ways past relationships haunt present ones, how this haunting is infected by patriarchy and its anxieties, and how that same ...