You’re as cold as ice You’re as cold as ice

A classic German fairytale gets a modern update at the Staatsoper Berlin.

Now I’m an old believer Now I’m an old believer

Big voices overwhelm Claus Guth‘s toothless staging of Khovanshchina at the Berlin Staatsoper.

Die schweigsame Frau Die schweigsame Frau

Christian Thielemann conducts a live broadcast from Berlin

Norma Norma

Rachel Willis-Sorensen sings the title role for the first time in a live performance from Berlin.

An der geliebter ‘ferne’ An der geliebter ‘ferne’

Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, today’s Talk of the Town candidate for a Met revival, was presented on Trove Thursday four years ago in a broadcast starring Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart; so instead today Chris’s Cache offers Der ferne Klang.