Turning over an old leaf
Is there any opera that can take more of a beating while still making an impact than Eugene Onegin?
11 pieces since 2016 — in 10 roles, at 7 companies, most often at Washington National Opera.
4 pieces as Washington National Opera — stats above show all coverage for Lindsay Ammann.
View allIs there any opera that can take more of a beating while still making an impact than Eugene Onegin?
Washington National Opera’s first Ring Cycle came to a bittersweet conclusion this past Sunday, closing the door on an extraordinary three weeks in the opera house and a remarkable musical and theatrical achievement for the company.
Washington National Opera followed up Monday’s lavishly praised Die Walküre with a Siegfried that, if not quite rising to the summit of the previous installment, delivered a musically committed and eminently watchable version of this complicated work.
Happily, this Rheingold, which returned to the Kennedy Center Saturday night to open the first of three complete cycles, has been shorn of its clumsier gestures.
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