(Photos by Eric Woolsey)

There wasn’t space in my review of Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s production of Brundibar to say everything that deserved to be said - so let me fill in some of the gaps here.

First, although critics really aren’t supposed…

The ghosts aren't scary; neither are the numbers.

Ireland’s Wexford Festival, which is now in partnership with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, has released the figures for its 58th season - and they’re pretty heartening.

Wexford, a co-producer of OTSL’s production of…

I’m taking off to accompany Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s Tim O’Leary and OTSL patrons (and no, the paper isn’t paying for it!) on their weeklong journey to London and Ireland’s Wexford Festival.

I’ll cover the events for the A&E section,…

(Ken Howard photo)

Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ production of Richard Strauss’s Salome got a lot of attention last summer.

Now the production is open in San Francisco, and it’s getting even more. It has a new cast; from the sound of…

Associated Press writer Deborah Baker writes that the Santa Fe Opera is taking a PR hit over the fact that it has given permission to drill for oil and gas on 27,000 acres in a rural part of the region.

The…

Adams

Composer John Adams is well known to St. Louis audiences through the performances of music director David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. (Their Nonesuch recording of Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” Symphony and “Guide to Strange Places” continues to reap…

O'Leary

(This doesn’t appear on the Arts & Books homepage, and it was hard to find on the STLToday.com website - so I’m reposting it here. Special bonus: A nice color photo of Tim O’Leary.)

James Levine

Indefatigable conductor James Levine, music director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has withdrawn from several performances with both institutions due to what the the BSO’s press release called “immediate unanticipated back surgery for a…

Lyric Opera of Chicago averted a walkout on the gala opening night of its new season (see http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/culture-club/culture-club/2009/09/lyric-opera-of-chicago-opening-night-threatened/), but all is definitely not well on Wacker Drive.

Members of the orchestra handed out leaflets to patrons as they arrived at the…

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2009-2010 season is scheduled to open tonight with Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca (in a less controversial production than the new one from the Met). At this writing, however, the performance is threatened: Contract negotiations with the orchestra…