
Next season I’m excited for Agneta Eichenholz
Eichenholz is much too rare on stage these days.
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Eichenholz is much too rare on stage these days.

Finally, finally, a change to see Massenet 's Hérodiade , albeit in concert from, though I long for a day when the Met or the Lyric Opera of Chicago would give us a staged performance.

With San Francisco Opera's orchestra on strike and bass Andrew Potter retiring at 43, Miles Greenberg sees opera's ethics and economics of impracticality at a breaking point

I guess it’s no secret here that I LOVE contemporary operas.

Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried .

The mezzo international anthem is so oversung that we forget how hard it is to sing.

The Royal Opera House 's Don Giovanni comes without an instruction manual — but features a fine lothario in Gordon Bintner .

A new Macbeth summons the forces of hell — and the star power of Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen — for a fiery start to the Met's new season.

Haley Whitney shines as the mother of us all in The Marigny Opera Ballet 's stirring staging of Scarlatti's Cain .

Opera San José opened its season with a new production of Don Giovanni that embraced the opera’s challenges with youthful abandon, even as it was sometimes felled by them.

Berlin's 26-27 season opens with a bang.

I’m overdue for some bel canto and WCO has historically done it well.
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