Jacquelyn Stucker talks to Kevin Ng about repertoire, tearing down the Fach system, and what it takes to make music from baroque to George Benjamin her own.
Chris’s Cache would argue that Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery is a much more enjoyable alternative to the pandemic-canceled Barrie Kosky The Fiery Angel
When such a canonically ossified work like Verdi’s Aïda is directed at all (let alone as ambitiously as Damiano Michieletto at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), it does feel like a completely different opera
A live video broadcast from Zurich starring Saimir Pirgu in the title role
A live broadcast from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Les Brigands at the Paris Opera is an expensive joke that never lands
A new production of Dialogues des Carmélites featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci proves that it’s hard to be an iconoclast in Venice.
A performance recorded last month and reviewed here featuring Véronique Gens, Niamh O’Sullivan, Regula Mühlemann, and Peter Rose
Daniele Rustioni leads a verismo double bill recorded in Munich last month
Konstantin Krimmel plays the title role in a live broadcast from Munich
A brilliant L’italiana in Algeri in Rome has Larry Wolff once again thinking about “singing Turks”
A live video broadcast from Vienna starring Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov
Claudio Abbado made his Met debut on 7 October 1968 conducting Verdi’s Don Carlo, led five more performances through 14 November, and then never returned. Chris’s Cache offers the only complete recording I’ve run across from that run.
Kent Nagano‘s and the Richard-Wagner-Akademie‘s historically informed Ring Cycle takes on Siegfried in Dresden
Nicky Spence sings the title role in a performance recorded earlier this spring in Cardiff
A new recording by the London Symphony Orchestra is the latest landmark in a spring full of Janácek‘s Jenufa
A live broadcast from Venice featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci as Madame de Croissy
Carmen in Brussels is dramatically vibrant, if vocally stretched
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