Don Alfonso sings, “The faith of women is like the phoenix; everyone says it exists, but no one knows where it is!”, paraphrasing a famous aria by Metastasio. The third…
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NĂśRNBERG | Staatsoper Stuttgart
Opening night for this production, and for many of its soloists as well: no fewer than seventeen role dĂ©buts. A distinct air of renewal, then, for an opera that demands…
DER SCHATZGRĂ„BER | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Restraint touched with elegance returns to the stage of the Deutsche Oper in this revival of Der Schatzgräber, in Christof Loy’s staging, long acclaimed wherever it has been seen. In…
MADAMA BUTTERFLY | Bayerische Staatsoper
There are evenings when the drama onstage doesn’t so much begin as unfold from the breath of its singers — when the emotional temperature is set not by the podium…