Now sleeps the crimson petal Now sleeps the crimson petal

Gregory Spears’s Sleepers Awake mystifies and delights at Opera Philadelphia.

Höchste Lust! Höchste Lust!

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra, Stuart Skelton, and Nina Stemme in a Tristan und Isolde for the ages

Semper Fidelio Semper Fidelio

Fidelio, which opened last week at the Metropolitan Opera, will always be relevant, I fear.