The year 2022 rings in at the Metropolitan Opera with a New Year's Eve gala performance of Verdi's Rigoletto in a new production from Bartlett Sher, the multiple Tony Award winning director who has been active at the Met since 2006. Starring baritone Quinn Kelsey as the tragic clown, this Rigoletto promises an Art Deco look […]
Norwegian director Stefan Herheim and Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles are in charge of the new Deutsche Oper Berlin Ring Cycle, which debuted in November and goes into the third and final cycle of the season Jan. 4, 5, 7 and 9. The production gives the story a contemporary mindset and promises a video release in […]
Nina Stemme stars as the Valkyrie Brünnhilde in "Die Walküre," Part 2 of the Deutsche Oper Ring, now in its third and final week of runs. Norwegian director Stefan Herheim and Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles are in charge of the new Ring Cycle, which debuted in November and on Jan. 9 completes its final festival […]
Clay Hilley stars as a hero in the making in the Stefan Herheim/Donald Runnicles production of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The festival commenced in November with a weeklong run of all four operas, and the season's final repetition of the run is underway. The production gives the story a contemporary mindset […]
