Fayetteville, North Carolina, is the setting for Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera — and where Raven grew up.
The production’s superior direction by newcomer Rob Ashford makes Rossini’s much-performed opera buffa shine.
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s new work, set during the American Civil War, has its characters wrestling with the nature of storytelling.
The company’s modern premiere of Domenico Freschi’s forgotten 1681 opera gets the details right.