At Santa Fe Opera, Wagner’s work is being presented for the first time, in a striking, modest staging that makes space for the music. By David Allen SANTA FE, N.M. — The play of light has always been ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHILADELPHIA — On Sunday afternoon at Marian Anderson Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led his Philadelphia Orchestra through the ...
Thorleifur Orn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany is an excellently conducted puzzle of grim symbols. By Joshua Barone Reviewing from Bayreuth, Germany ...
Stuart Skelton, Nina Stemme and Brian Mulligan as Tristan, Isolde and Kurwenal performing behind the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photo: Jessica Griffin / Philadelphia O ...
The capacity to combine the arts — music, theater, stunning visual effects, dance — is one of opera’s great attractions. But along with encouraging an interdisciplinary vision, opera thrives on ...
Expectations run high when Seattle Opera presents Wagner. Because of the company’s storied history with that composer’s monumental works, operagoers were prepared for great music on opening night of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Ozarks native and international opera star Michael Spyres will sing the role of Tristan in the Metropolitan ...
PHILADELPHIA — On Sunday afternoon at Marian Anderson Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led his Philadelphia Orchestra through the four-hour entirety of Richard Wagner’s ‘Tristan and Isolde.” And I don’t ...