Francesca Zambello’s potent vision isn’t quite enough to lift "Fidelio" beyond more than a few inspired moments.

There have been few occasions in my life when I have read letters that have made my eyes come so far out on stalks that it is ...

The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...

The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Deep in Pizarro’s dungeon, a woebegone Florestan — powerfully sung by ...

As we see all too often, an opera director can easily fall into the trap of over-thinking a new production and that is what seems to have happened in Fidelio at the Royal Opera House. Beethoven's ...

That's because it's not just the usual British guff I've become used to when I play games that dabble with our manner of ...

ReFantazio is filled with a colorful cast of characters, but the characters you’ll spend the most time with are your ...

Given he’s a disciple of the late Hans Neuenfels, who pioneered this interventionist approach to directing opera, his revisionist take on Fidelio should come as no surprise. In a nutshell his message ...

With time getting on, in the early hours of Saturday morning, multi-award winning writer Elliot Worsell was faced with the ...

Over a month since the game came out in early October 2024, Atlus released a second story trailer for Metaphor: ReFantazio. The trailer includes content from the second act of the game, but no ...

Youth is such a beautiful and innocent thing, and in Metaphor: ReFantazio, there’s little opportunity to engage with it.