Night and dreams
At the Opernhaus Zürich, the coat check is not optional.
Michelle Breedt
8 pieces since 2012 — in 4 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
8
pieces
4
roles
4
companies
15
years
By role
Role Brangäne
Gould standard
Midway through his traversal of Wagner’s 10 mature operas for PentaTone, we’ve learned this about Marek Janowski:
Role Clytemnestra
No such Gluck
When Richard Wagner reached into the past and revised Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide, he went beyond the accepted boundaries of tinkering and more or less created a new work that’s fomented aesthetic debates ever since.
By Adriel
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Role Liese
And never brought to mind
It would be generous to say that history comes alive on the operatic stage.
Notes on camp
Zofia Posmysz spent two years as a prisoner in Auschwitz—and she’s still alive and standing pretty tall, in New York for the Lincoln Center Festival God bless her.
Role Venus
Tanks a lot, but no tanks
The production by Sebastian Baumgarten is the type of regietheater that’s not a rethinking or reconstruction, but just a hot mess.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).