2026 Great Salt Lake Fringe Reviews & Info
Editor’s Note: Last Updated August 3 @ 9:43am SALT LAKE CITY — Each summer, the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival celebrates independent, experimental, and artist-driven performance. Fringe is not one…
Utah Festival’s PIRATES OF PENZANCE is a Modern Major Triumph
LOGAN — The Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre delivers a triumphant production of The Pirates of Penzance. The production is vibrant and fresh, while honoring Gilbert and Sullivan‘s beloved…
No Objections to UFOMT’S SCALIA/GINSBURG and TRIAL BY JURY
LOGAN — This year’s Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre (UFOMT) season includes two one-act comedy operas: Scalia/Ginsburg and Trial by Jury. While each opera is unique, both deliver exceptional…
Utah Opera’s LA TRAVIATA shines through minor missteps
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Opera’s current production of Verdi’s La Traviata at the Capitol Theater offers thrilling vocal performances and a committed chorus, even as some staging choices muddy…
LA COSTANZA TRIONFANTE is unique look into lost Vivaldi opera
RECORDING — We reach a unique milestone in the history of Utah Theatre Bloggers with this review. We have been attempting to expand our opera footprint in reviewing more local…
MESSIAH: ONE WOMAN’S SACRED STRUGGLE is touching and uplifting
SALT LAKE CITY — Most people are familiar with Handel’s Messiah, a beloved oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel with text taken from the King James Bible and…
Love is In the Air at Utah Opera’s ELIXIR OF LOVE
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Opera’s latest offering is The Elixir of Love, the 1832 classic by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Despite being the 13th most-performed opera in the world,…
Utah Opera’s, Fidelio, A Power House
I made up a saying decades ago: B.C.M.I.B. “Beethoven Can Make It Better!” And indeed he can. Utah Opera’s current offering is Beethoven’s only opera: Fidelio, first produced in 1805.…
UTBA’s 2025 Excellence in Utah Part 2
Congratulations to Utah Theatre Companies in 2025! Across Utah, theatre companies of all sizes and models produced work in 2025 that challenged, delighted, and inspired audiences. From professional and semi-professional…
OPERA CONTEMPO’s PROTECTRESS is a promising look at a new opera.
Opera Contempo’s latest project is a semi-staged, score-in-hand, reading of Act 2 of a new opera, Protectress, by local composer Jessica Rudman and librettist Kendra Preston Leonard. The final dress…