Whenever the Ring is staged in its entirety, it becomes a major international event—particularly at a world-renowned opera house such as the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden. From September 27 to October 12, two complete Ring Cycles directed by Christian Thielemann were presented in revival, with few cast changes from 2022. The Staatsoper closed for renovations in 2010, and the reopening didn’t occur until[...]
Staging Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Germany, and especially at Bayreuth, has been a challenge since World War II ended. Its unbridled celebration of German art and culture has been […]
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s full-length concert performances of Tristan und Isolde on June 1 and 8 marked several milestones in the contemporary opera scene: the first time Yannick Nézet-Séguin had conducted the full score […]
Katharina Wagner’s new production of Lohengrin that premiered on March 17 in Barcelona upends the story of the swan knight in shining armor from distant land to rescue an innocent […]
An epic new series of Ring operas came to its conclusion at Brussels’ Theatre de la Monnaie on February 4 with the premiere of Götterdämmerung. All eight performances were sold […]