The premiere recording of David T. Little’s What Belongs to You reveals a work of both tenderness and artistic tenacity.
Barrie Kosky’s zany production of The Nose time-steps back onto the Komische Oper Berlin stage.
Boris Christoff‘s sound is justly famous, and his vocal splendor is on full display here.
Jacquelyn Stucker talks to Kevin Ng about repertoire, tearing down the Fach system, and what it takes to make music from baroque to George Benjamin her own.
Ahead of her return to the Met, soprano Corinne Winters chats with Kevin Ng about her repertoire, overcoming biases about her voice type, and how she plans to play “energetic, young women” as long as she can.
This to me is everything that makes Donizetti the great dramatist of the bel canto era.
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