A phenomenally endearing production, Opera Holland Park’s staging of Handel’s beloved Acis and Galatea is a smashing success that finds just the right balance between musical finesse and ...

Beanbags (candy-bright) are strewn across the turf (astro), bathed in the glow of the vending machines ranked across the back of the stage. “Work Hard, Play Harder” enjoins a balloon sign, while ...

LENOX — Dashon Burton raged into Arcadia at the start of Act 2 as the monstrous Polyphemus, exploding onto the Seiji Ozawa Hall stage and lifting the rest of an otherwise uneven “Acis and Galatea” ...

When it comes to arousing interest in a new artistic project, the passions of the music and dance worlds rarely converge - except when Mark Morris comes to town. The world premiere of the famed ...

Jealousy and passion cause a monstrous beast to destroy a great romance is the same basic storyline of the two operas offered by the Central City Opera on July 26. Apart from this, these two ...

Can opera be cute? With its enormous, brightly colored sheep and a gamboling, high-heeled shepherd looking like a Prince-infused satyr, Florentine Opera's "Acis and Galatea" makes that case. At ...

Very few choreographers have the temerity, not to mention the talent, to choreograph and direct an opera. Then there’s Mark Morris, who has tackled 12 operas over his long, productive career. May ...

It’s a classic fable of sensuous love. A mortal man, Acis, and Galatea, a beautiful Nereid, or sea nymph, are smitten with desire for each other. Galatea is presented as the loveliest of the scores of ...

2 Review: MEET ME IN ST LOUIS at The Muny Overflows with Sentimentality and Heart To open their 18th season, the Union Avenue Opera has chosen an English text version (John Gay) of Handel's take on ...

The Haymarket Opera Company did not originally plan to launch its 10th anniversary season online. But on Friday evening the early music group did exactly that, in an unconventional and wholly ...

Launched in 2017, the company’s reliably punchy Studio Live strand (stripped-back, small-scale, off-site performances) continues here with Handel’s “little opera”, reinvented for the Instagram age.