Bomb scare
The appeal of Ariadne auf Naxos (for me anyway) is the acknowledgment that underneath it all, opera (and all other forms of “high art”) is really show business.
Sergey Skorokhodov
4 pieces since 2014 — in 4 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Bayerische Staatsoper.
4
pieces
4
roles
4
companies
13
years
Role Bacchus
Role Calaf
From a distance
The opening night of the Canadian Opera Company’s 2019-20 season was all about the Wilsons.
Role Erik
A dark drab dud
I never imagined I’d see such a rote park-and-bark Wagner production created in 2020!
Role Grigory
A tsar is torn
In Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, all the Russian people starve and suffer, but none has suffering like the mental agonies of Tsar Boris.