Performer: Rachel Willis-Sørensen

Pelly’s low-level intervention leaves the audience marooned at the end of his new production of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s operatic divertissement. 

The Metropolitan Opera revives Otto Schenk’s venerable staging of Strauss’s intimate melodrama. 

Despite excellent performances from Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Elmina Hasan, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's new production of Norma lacks a pinch of salt. 

Giacomo Sagripanti’s live wire dynamics and keenly judged tempo choices keep this revival of Verdi's Il trovatore buoyant at Covent Garden. 

Four superstars deliver dramatic moments in this revival of Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired staging of Verdi’s melodrama. 

Shawna Lucey's production from San Francisco Opera misses the mark as it premieres to a packed Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. 

Die Sopranistin spricht mit Isabella Steppan über Strauss und Verdi, die Unterstützung junger Sänger*innen und die positiven Seiten der „ständigen Sterberei” auf der Opernbühne.