Michaela Schuster

16 pieces since 2010 — in 9 roles, at 6 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

16 pieces
9 roles
6 companies
17 years

2 pieces as Royal Opera House — stats above show all coverage for Michaela Schuster.

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Salo, me

David McVicar’s ravishingly lurid 2008 production of Strauss’s Salome for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden has been issued as an HD-filmed DVD from Opus Arte.  Now, Strauss’s music is ravishingly lurid on its own, so I came to this production, which claims as a visual source reference the Pasolini film Salo, The 120 Days […]

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Old-fashioned

I saw the final dress rehearsal of Adriana Lecouvreur at the Royal Opera House on Monday this week, and I think I have never seen the place so crowded for such an event. No wonder, for here was a cast you might dream of, in a highly finished piece of work mounted by one of […]

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