How Did Wagner Want His ‘Ring’ Cycle to Sound?
With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic.
Posted inDutch National Opera Leon, Anthony Michelle, Lauren Opera Perkins, Roxie Reid, Ellen (Composer) The Shell Trial (Opera)
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.
Posted inContent Type: Personal Profile La Rondine (Opera) Madama Butterfly (Opera) Metropolitan Opera Opera Puccini, Giacomo Tetelman, Jonathan
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.
Posted inBavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Bieito, Calixto Classical Music Opera Paris Opera Rattle, Simon The Exterminating Angel (Opera)
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.