Soprano Anna Netrebko to open Royal Opera season, returning after a 6-year absence
Soprano Anna Netrebko will return to London’s Royal Opera after a six-year absence to open the 2025-26 season in a new ...
New York Classical Review17h
A first-rate cast balances uneven conducting in Met’s “Figaro”
Muraro and Bishop had the ease and confidence of the veterans they are, producing much of the comedy. Tenor Brenton Ryan was ...
BroadwayWorld19h
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG Comes to Det. KGL Teater
Wagner’s magnificent comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is coming to Det. KGL. Teater in a novel production by master ...
The New Criterion20h
Met-worthiness in Mozart
The Met had assembled a very capable cast, too. In the title role was Michael Sumuel, a bass-baritone from Texas. He has a ...
The Street Journal2d
‘Blow up the opera houses!’: 100 years of Pierre Boulez
It was in 2004 at the Bayreuth Festival, which celebrates the music of Richard Wagner: Christoph Schlingensief, "enfant terrible" of German stage directors, was directing the opera "Parsifal," a work ...
A Conductor’s Intensity on the Podium Matches Her Approachability Off
Joana Mallwitz, one of Germany’s fastest rising stars, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” on ...
BroadwayWorld5d
Music Director Carl St.Clair Leads Pacific Symphony In Three Semi-Staged Performances Of Wagner's DAS RHEINGOLD
Under the baton of Music Director Carl St.Clair-one of today's foremost Wagner interpreters-audiences can experience the raw ...