Madison Schindele surveys the endlessly diverse offerings of Berlin’s 2026-27 opera season.
Iain Bell and Lydia Steier‘s Medusa stuns in Brussels.
An opera about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics was never going to be an easy task.
Nothing says “diva” like an insane recital program.
This month, both the Paris Opéra and the Opéra-Comique are mounting seminal works about unhinged anti-heroines who meet their downfall after falling head-over-heels for an unavailable, deeply unattainable man – Salome, in the case of the Opéra; and Armide, in the case of the Opéra-Comique.
Today’s listener has heard the scores of the classic Westerns that borrowed from Puccini (and Wagner!) to create the sound of the myth of the West.
A problem with scheduling an opera-intensive trip is that you don’t always hear and see the shows in optimum order.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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