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Götterdämmerung weicht amerikanischer Morgenröte
Die Götterdämmerung schloss den Zyklus passend - und gänzlich amerikanisch - ab.
Strong singing as The Met revives Massenet’s Manon
Laurent Pelly’s darkly stylish production of Manon is revived with a strong cast of singers. In the title role, Lisette Oropesa demonstrated elegant and incisive singing, while Michael Fabiano was her virile and powerful partner.
One Rheingold to rule them all
With Andris Nelsons' withdrawal from Bayreuth last year, the BSO’s summer home, Tanglewood, became the venue for his Wagner with a concert performance of Das Rheingold
An unforgettable emotional experience
American composer Jake Heggie's early opera performed by Washington National Opera was one of those rare experiences of an opera full of raw power and wrenching emotion with superb performers that one is not likely to forget soon.
Holding a mirror up to Nature: Zambello’s Siegfried
Zambello's Ring for the WNO continues to engage and impress.
Manifest destiny and doom
Das Rheingold stages flawed American Ambitions in the first Ring Cycle in Washington DC.