The soprano shares her thoughts on the role she sang earlier this year with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
And three more years of Principal Conductor Asher Fisch is the icing on the cake.
From Broadway to the Super Bowl, from Rosenkavalier to Rock albums, this soprano is beginning to look like she’s done it all. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Though it may sound glamorous, getting Greta Bradman’s latest project off the ground took more sticky tape than you might think. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
★★★★☆ A dramatically convincing production totally within Wagner’s world.
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The first instalment of David Robertson’s epic concert performance of Wagner’s tragic love story is free to view.
How the work of Wagner changed the way in which this conductor saw the world. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
So was Frank Castorf's Ring really deserving of all those boos?
The opera star was subjected to homophobic abuse at a major basketball match in Melbourne.
★★★★☆ Stefan Herheim set his recent whacky, magical Salzburg Meistersinger at the time Wagner wrote his comedic masterpiece and here he’s done it again, relocating Verdi’s tale of 13th-century French knights oppressing Sicilian peasantry to the Paris of Napoleon III. By planting the action backstage at the Paris Opéra itself, he hopes to reveal some kind of existential truth behind the phoney glitter of 19th-century theatricals. That smacks of artful mumbo jumbo and it doesn’t entirely hold water, nevertheless he has chosen a suitably sumptuous setting and Covent Garden have done it proud with gilded sets, magnificent costumes and effects that wouldn’t seem out of place in The Phantom of the Opera. The Overture gives us the backstory as nasty French general Guy de Montfort has his wicked way with a ballerina captured as collateral damage in some kind of military uprising. The corps de ballet, done up as Les Sylphides, are one of the ornaments of this production, the freedom fighter Procida seemingly their ballet master. Amongst all this there are some ravishing set pieces, more heart-stopping coup de théâtres than one director has a right to come up with, and a few misfires (the middle-aged revolutionaries’ moment at…
