“Robert Lepage‘s direction of a crucial scene in the Ring is even worse than Otto Schenk‘s, if such a thing is possible.”
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Our selected Rosenkavalier video overview closes out the 20th-century selections, crosses the millennial mark, and includes the first of our performances to depart from the opera’s prescribed 18th-century setting.
“Time is a strange thing,” the lady observes, to a young man who cannot begin to understand what she is talking about.
Today’s Rusalka video overview covers filmed performances of Dvorák’s opera since 2010.
Tristan has been the season-launching opera three times before now, but good luck finding someone to provide a firsthand account of the last time.
