Visual storytelling: Ken Howard on performance photography

Renée Fleming in Rusalka, The Metropolitan Opera

Eugene Onegin, The Metropolitan Opera

Joyce DiDonato in The Enchanted Island, The Metropolitan Opera

Matt Boehler in The Mikado, OperaTheatre of St Louis

Anna Netrebko in Roméo et Juliette, The Metropolitan Opera

Marcello Giordani and Cristina Gallardo-Domâs in Madama Butterfly, The Met

Das Rheingold, The Metropolitan Opera

Luca Pisaroni in The Enchanted Island, The Metropolitan Opera

By Bachtrack, 06 June 2019

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“I’ve always considered what I do a dance with performers: they lead and I follow”

Chanda VanderHart, 6th March

Chanda VanderHart talks to the American tenor about his Tristan debut at the Met, his love for Vienna and Otto Schenk, and the incredible scope of his repertoire.

Nadine Sierra reclaims her narrative

Kevin W Ng, 8th November

Fresh out of her triumphant appearance in La sonnambula at the Met, soprano Nadine Sierra talks about being on a turning point in her career.

Taking another fearless leap: Sonya Yoncheva

Mark Pullinger, 21st March

“I don't fear anything!” Sonya Yoncheva discusses her career, from leaping from the Castel Sant’Angelo as Tosca to preparing a new Iolanta in Vienna, and setting up her own production company.

Kith and kin: Brett Dean and family prepare Of One Blood

Lawrence Dunn, 1st May

Brett Dean, Heather Betts and Lotte Betts-Dean sit down to discuss their work on Of One Blood, a new opera dramatising the lives of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots – affairs of the family all round.

Attuned to the times: Anastasia Kobekina in Prague

Charlotte Gardner, 30th April

Ahead of a return to Prague to perform with the Czech Philharmonic, Anastasia Kobekina talks about Bryce Dessner’s new cello concerto, Trembling Earth, her love for Dvořák, and exploring new instruments.

Rambert School, Juilliard School, McGregor: triple threat!

Deborah Weiss, 29th April

Amanda Britton, Artistic Director of Rambert School, talks about an exchange and collaboration between the Rambert School and Juilliard to create a new work by Wayne McGregor, a unique project.

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