If opera at its best aspires to a different world, then we need to cultivate an anti-elite approach to how it is created and performed.
Category: Opera
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5 Breakout Artists at the Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is synonymous with excellence and fame. But it’s also a place where artists on the cusp of stardom can shine.
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5 Breakout Artists at the Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is synonymous with excellence and fame. But it’s also a place where artists on the cusp of stardom can shine.
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This Is My Voice One Year on T
A transgender music critic explores the change in their singing voice after taking testosterone.
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Vienna Bids Farewell to Magnate Who Brought Stars to Its Opera Ball
Sophia Loren, Kim Kardashian, Priscilla Presley and Jane Fonda were among the stars Richard Lugner enticed, and often paid, to appear at the Vienna Opera Ball.
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Has the Composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Time Finally Come?
With an opera at the Salzburg Festival and recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg may be taking root.
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As Ukraine War Goes On, Where Is Teodor Currentzis’s Red Line?
Teodor Currentzis, whose MusicAeterna receives funding from a Russian state bank, has eluded censure at the prestigious Salzburg Festival.
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Met Opera’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Yuval Sharon Will Team Up for ‘Ring’
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director, will extend his contract and lead Wagner’s four-opera epic, in a production staged by Yuval Sharon.
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The World Is Still Catching Up to the Music of Hector Berlioz
The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams.
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A Death-Driven ‘Tristan und Isolde’ at the Bayreuth Festival
Thorleifur Orn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany is an excellently conducted puzzle of grim symbols.
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Benjamin Luxon, British Baritone Thwarted by Hearing Loss, Dies at 87
A favorite of Benjamin Britten, he won acclaim in roles like Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin and Falstaff until his affliction forced him to largely give up singing.
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Anna Netrebko, Shunned in U.S. Over Putin Support, to Sing in Palm Beach
The star soprano, who lost work at American opera companies after Russia invaded Ukraine, will sing at a gala for Palm Beach Opera, her first American engagement since 2019.