It takes a woman
The plight of two women, each from different backgrounds, was on full display in San Francisco opera houses last week.
Eve-Maud Hubeaux
5 pieces since 2019 — in 4 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Staatsoper Hamburg.
5
pieces
4
roles
4
companies
8
years
By role
Role Carmen
Role Cornelia
Roman holiday
A brace of Handel operas at the George Enescu International Festival.
Role Eboli
‘Don’ or dinner party
A revival of Peter Konwitschny’s rightly legendary Don Carlos and Dmitri Tcherniakov’s confounding new Salome: both turned out to be unforgettable!
Role Fricka
Get in the zone
Tamara Wilson and Stanislas de Barbeyrac are the standouts in Calixto Bieito’s underwhelming Die Walküre in Paris
God grief
Nigel Wilkinson takes on the first installment of the Paris Opera’s new Calixto Bieito-directed Ring Cycle
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).