4 pieces since 2014 — in 4 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Bolshoi Opera.
Verdi’s Falstaff is a brilliantly written opera: funny, with a complex ability to operate across minutely shifting registers of farce and lyricism. It needs, ideally, a production and cast capable of executing both comedy and drama, irony and sincerity—often concurrently. In its current Met revival, happily, Falstaff has everything it needs.
The Ralph Fiennes production of Eugene Onegin at the Paris Opera is just…fine.
Opera-lovers who attend too much modern opera may find that it feels like duty.
We’ve had a mini-fest of director Barrie Kosky’s work this year at LA Opera.
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