With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic.
Category: Opera
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Review: ‘The Shell Trial’ Seeks a Guilty Party in Climate Change
Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins’s new opera, about events still in progress, finds fault and complicity in every player of a global blame game.
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The American Tenor Jonathan Tetelman, a Puccini Specialist, Arrives at the Met
Jonathan Tetelman will sing in “La Rondine” and “Madama Butterfly” in New York. He trained as a baritone and worked as a D.J. before finding his “authentic voice” as a tenor.
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Thomas Adès Takes a Step Toward the Classical Music Canon
As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production.
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James Conlon to Step Down as Music Director of Los Angeles Opera
James Conlon, who has conducted more performances with the company than anyone else, will step down from his post in 2026.
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Met Opera’s Orchestra Will Tour Asia for the First Time
After the pandemic forced the cancellation of a tour planned for 2022, the ensemble will visit Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in June.
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‘As Living as Opera Can Get’: John Cage’s Anarchic Anti-Canon
In his “Europeras,” Cage dismantled centuries of tradition and expectations, for musicians and audiences alike. A rare revival is coming to Detroit.
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Terence Blanchard and Anthony Davis in Close-Up at Jazz Concerts
Terence Blanchard and Anthony Davis, recent pioneers at the Metropolitan Opera, returned to earlier works in a pair of performances over the weekend.
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Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Turandot’ Returns With a Strong Debut
In a revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the conductor Oksana Lyniv led a performance that transcended the gilded stage dressing.
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Review: Lise Davidsen Cements Her Stardom in Met Opera’s ‘Forza’
Lise Davidsen, entering the Italian repertoire at the company, was part of a superb cast as Verdi’s opera returned for the first time since 2006.
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Lise Davidsen Stars in ‘Forza’ at the Met Opera
The singer, best known in the works of Wagner and Strauss, is starring in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino.”