There were so many reasons to attend the Verbier Festival this year for the Gianni Schicchi / Cavalleria Rusticana concert on Thursday, July 24, and let me give you a…
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO | ChorĂ©gies d’Orange
The weekend promised to be… magnificent!With three operas across two different festivals — Aix-en-Provence to start, and the ChorĂ©gies d’Orange to wrap things up on Sunday — the program featured…
LES PĂŠCHEURS DE PERLES | Festival d’Aix en Provence
What a discovery! Why hadn’t I experienced this before? I’ve seen three or four Les PĂŞcheurs de Perles live on stage in the past, but this time… I don’t know…
DON GIOVANNI | Festival d’Aix en Provence
To “give of oneself”: definition — To make a personal effort or sacrifice; to invest one’s time, energy, or physical presence in helping or participating in something. There is no…
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN | Opernhaus ZĂĽrich
One of the really cool things about loving opera in general is that it’s like a bottomless well—just like good wine, or our culinary tastes, we evolve with time. The…
NORMA | Teatro alla Scala
Decades of waiting—yes, literal decades—had gone by without Norma being staged in the most iconic theatre of the Italian repertoire. You can imagine my reaction when, in May 2024, I…
LA TRAVIATA | Grand Théâtre de Genève
How is it possible to let this happen? How can I maintain any critical subjectivity after witnessing such a disastrous production from a staging point of view? Anything related to…
CARMEN | Deutsche Oper Berlin
If you know a little about what I do, first of all, and after reading the rest of this article, you know that I’m a passionate person who has enormous,…
RIGOLETTO | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Another Rigoletto? Yes. Still exciting? Absolutely. I’ve stopped counting how many Rigolettos I’ve seen this year — and yet, each one feels like a new adventure. That’s the beauty of…