“Robert Lepage‘s direction of a crucial scene in the Ring is even worse than Otto Schenk‘s, if such a thing is possible.”
“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.
“I will never sing the role again. It was frightful. We were a set of madwomen…There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived and reached the furthest boundaries in dramatic writing for the voice with Wagner. But Richard Strauss goes beyond him. His singing voices are lost. We have come to a full stop.”