War! What is it good for?
The crown jewel of this year’s Munich Festival is undoubtedly Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which opened the Festival on June 29 and will close the Festival with an “Opera for All” screening on July 31.
Anja Harteros
24 pieces since 2010 — in 10 roles, at 6 companies, most often at Bayerische Staatsoper.
24
pieces
10
roles
6
companies
17
years
By role
4 pieces as Bayerische Staatsoper — stats above show all coverage for Anja Harteros.
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Once more with feeling
We humans tend to dislike uncertainty, therefore there is something comforting going to opera revivals; you know exactly what you are going to get.
Cross purposes
“Has anyone ever seen a truly great production of this opera?”
Mostly armorless
I’d never actually seen a production of Lohengrin before I agreed to review a new Decca DVD of Richard Jones‘s staging for the Bayerische Staastoper, starring Jonas Kaufmann, so I hope I’ve got this right: It’s about this architect named Elsa, who lives in an Orwellian steampunk Germany that has videocamera technology but still dresses like […]