The Chicago Symphony Orchestra explores love and death in an intense, intelligent program featuring soprano Corinne Winters.
If song recitals by opera stars Piotr Beczala and Asmik Grigorian sometimes came up short, Semyon Bychkov’s powerful rendition of the Glagolitic Mass instantly became one of the year’s highlights.
Leos Janacek’s 1904 opera Jenufa could be a rather grim affair.
Perhaps the most admirable project of Dominique Meyer’s Intendanz at Wiener Staatsoper is the traversal of the operas of Leos Janancek,.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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