“I don’t play a wilting flower very well” “I don’t play a wilting flower very well”

Jennifer Holloway, star of Salome at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, talks with Christina Colanduoni about re-launching her career as a soprano and how her Salome is “just trying not to disappear under everybody else’s rule.”

The snows that lie on the mountains of Judaea The snows that lie on the mountains of Judaea

Salome sweeps in like a storm at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Lucky those people who are so anxious to believe Lucky those people who are so anxious to believe

A high-drama Vanessa by the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers something to believe in.

This is what trauma looks like This is what trauma looks like

Valentin Schwarz‘s and Simone Young‘s Ring, in its final outing at Bayreuth, is dramaturgically messy and musically excellent.