Mark Delavan

14 pieces since 2009 — in 10 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

14 pieces
10 roles
4 companies
18 years

1 piece as Deutsche Oper Berlin — stats above show all coverage for Mark Delavan.

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Golden shower

“This is the end of Western culture,” Richard Strauss proclaimed after a rehearsal of his penultimate opera Die Liebe der Danae, in Salzburg in 1944. The octogenarian composer, increasingly on the outs with the Nazis and switched off from contemporary music currents, could well have identified with his protagonist Jupiter, a once-mighty God caught up in an off-kilter […]

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