Strauss’s Salome shocks like never before
Lydia Steier’s new production in Paris is designed to disturb – and it did just that.
Lydia Steier’s new production in Paris is designed to disturb – and it did just that.
The German city’s Handelfest is a serious affair and rightly so.
Seldom featured in concerto form, the evocative trombone has been foolishly overlooked. Dani Howard’s American audience concurs.
Both capitals are marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Giacomo Puccini, the Taylor Swift of the early 20th century.
Gaslighting is the word of the moment and Donizetti’s Lucia is full of it.
The Met took a risk putting on an opera by a man with no track record in the medium. It paid off.
The colourful and permanently frenetic performance was completely at odds with the intense gravitas of the subject.
Floris Visser’s subtle eye for painstaking detail is a thing to behold.
Puccini’s accessible opera was made truly great by the Pogorelc sisters.
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