7 pieces since 2015 — in 6 roles, at 5 companies, most often at Bregenz Festival.
Giacomo Puccini’s final opus interruptus is and shall always remain my favorite opera. The reasons for this preference are so varied and numerous that if they were printed and bound the volume would most assuredly require its own stand.
Tosca, as it exists now, can’t be real, spontaneous drama-it’s just Camp.
Maria Kataeva makes a promising US debut in an otherwise uneven revival of Il Barbiere di Siviglia in San Francisco.
When you attend a performance of Georges Bizet’s Carmen you can never be quite certain which one you’re in for.
This video recording of Il trovatore is sensational for all the right and wrong reasons simultaneously.
Le nozze di Figaro in Santa Fe is a light and kindly revival while The Turn of the Screw is crisp and atmospheric
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