Opera
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Robert Lepage’s production, with a notoriously noisy machine as its centerpiece, benefits from distance, which makes it quieter and more cinematic. Source
What makes a great Wotan, the king of the gods in Wagner’s “Ring” cycle? Three writers dissect Michael Volle’s triumph in the role. Source
Boston Lyric Opera is staging Poul Ruders’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel in a space that could have come straight from the book. Source
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, discusses a passage from Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites,” which returns this week. Source
After the Met’s Grand Finals Concert, our chief music critic spoke to a judge about what makes a performance memorable. Source
Rosa Feola made her debut as Gilda in “Rigoletto” on Friday. The next morning, Andreas Schager brought his Siegfried to the Met in “Götterdämmerung.” Source
The opera seasons in many cities goes by without a single new work. Not here. Source
The conductor Philippe Jordan, 44, is relatively little known in the United States, but he’s at the crossroads of a major career in Europe. Source
The third installment of Wagner’s “Ring” has its problems. Robert Lepage’s production for the Metropolitan Opera doesn’t help. But the cast does. Source
