La Scala’s Marks the Centenary of Puccini’s Death With a Bold New Turandot
The production signified an evolution in the robust career of superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.
The production signified an evolution in the robust career of superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.
La Scala’s ballet troupe is among the best in the world and has lost no luster in this revival of a production it has been showing for thirty years.
Jules Massenet’s opera invites dreamy fantasies of a lost and better world.
The gloomy production is a poor platform for superstar soprano Lise Davidsen and a generally stellar cast.
In his debut performance of the title role, Gábor Bretz is superb in the Hungarian State Opera’s production of Mussorgsky’s enduring classic.
The WNO scores a success, delighting audiences with its freewheeling, Jazz-age New Orleans take on Offenbach’s Songbird.
This year’s Vienna Philharmonic U.S. tour sees memorable performances of Bruckner’s and Mahler’s Ninth Symphonies.
Palm Beach’s outgoing director, David Walker, will be sorely missed, but his legacy will live on, capped by this outstanding production of Hoffman set in the roaring ’20s.
With such a fine musical performance, it is regrettable that the subway station is the production’s most memorable image.
One would have to go back to Soviet times to find a more authoritarian polity in Russia.
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