It takes a woman
The plight of two women, each from different backgrounds, was on full display in San Francisco opera houses last week.
5 pieces since 2019 — in 4 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Staatsoper Hamburg.
The plight of two women, each from different backgrounds, was on full display in San Francisco opera houses last week.
A brace of Handel operas at the George Enescu International Festival.
A revival of Peter Konwitschny’s rightly legendary Don Carlos and Dmitri Tcherniakov’s confounding new Salome: both turned out to be unforgettable!
Tamara Wilson and Stanislas de Barbeyrac are the standouts in Calixto Bieito’s underwhelming Die Walküre in Paris
Nigel Wilkinson takes on the first installment of the Paris Opera’s new Calixto Bieito-directed Ring Cycle
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