Pre-Show Projection Loop created by Greg Emetaz https://vimeo.com/938400369/c965c9cca9?share=copy Review Quotations Boston Baroque gives contemporary spin to Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’…for the first time Boston Baroque collaborates with stage director Chuck Hudson. The staging is key in this opera. Inspired by the staging of the Prague debut of the opera, Hudson has the orchestra at the heart …
Review Quotations Fort Worth Opera on the road to resurgence in excellent semi-staged “La bohème” When hearing the qualifying term “semi-staged,” one fears the worst, especially in the grand setting of previous full productions at Bass Performance Hall. These early fears appeared to be pending when there were only a few chairs, a table, and …
Daniel James Cole is the recipient of the 2024 Costume Design Award from the Costume Society of America for his work on “Ariadne auf Naxos” at Arizona Opera.
Video Excerpts Review Quotations A Trip to Old Hollywood (And Some Great Voices) in Don Pasquale Pittsburgh Opera’s new production of Don Pasquale [goes] beyond opera-lovers-only territory and turns it into something that demands wider attention…There are a thousand brilliant touches to the staging…For film lovers (particularly of a TCM bent), it’s a treat; for …
Review Quotations Hudson’s dramatic values were clean and amazingly physical. Amneris is not afraid to slap people around, and Aida’s reminiscence of her homeland’s beauty is surprisingly sensual…We would not underestimate the immensity of undertaking this opera’s regional company premiere in Southwest Florida, and Opera Naples and its artistic director Ramòn Tebar deserve congratulations for …
Review Quotations Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend – North America (11/30-12/2): San Jose Opera’s PAGLIACCI. -Opera Wire Leoncavallo Meets Hitchcock: Stage director Chuck Hudson and a strongly theatrical cast have come up with a Pagliacci for the ages, downright Hitchcockian in its ability to deliver the layers of tension in Leoncavallo’s work. It’s …
Review Quotations TOP 10 of 2018! Fort Worth Opera’s 1950s Hollywood-inspired production of ‘Don Pasquale’ was one of Gregory Sullivan Isaacs favorite music and opera events of the year. Congrats to director Chuck Hudson and the entire cast and crew of this riotous romp! –TheaterJones Laughing All the Way The Fort Worth Opera’s production of …
