"stage director Kristine McIntyre has kept the story-telling as fluid as possible. Although written in two acts, she quite rightly, I...

"Guest conductor Robert Wood underscored the drama and sonority of the music for Austin Opera’s latest staging, which plays through...

"Conductor Robert Wood have created a wholly original interpretation of Costello’s quixotic exploration of love in all its facets: raw,...

‘“Florida” certainly had strong moments, not least Florida herself: Sharin Apostolou was terrific playing a curious, vibrant teenager...

"The outstanding mezzo-soprano Rebecca Ringle, her voice dark and warm and a tangible anchor in the ensembles. . . As Wright, the fine...

"Robert Wood, UrbanArias’s founder, conducted with his usual clarity and sensitivity" -Washington Post Read full review.

"The excellent cast (the patient, his wife and the doctor) does its best to interact with the 180 degrees of audience, and the hour-long...

“In what will be one of the opera’s defining moments, the girl (AVA PINE), her face shining with angelic sweetness, sings, in a kind of...

“They were backed up by the inner dialogues of a string quartet (members of the Inscape Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Urban Arias...

"Robert Wood, the general director of UrbanArias, conducted the players of the American Modern Ensemble and the pianist Keith Chambers in...