Lortzing’s Zar und Zimmermann has found a strongly cherished following among German-speaking audiences, thanks to its clever comedy and vivacious musical moments. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
Artur Garbas
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Two Peters. One a Russian Tsar. One a Holland-based carpenter. One German opera by Albert Lortzing that needs more recognition in not just its native Germany but also internationally. One romantic comedy story filled with laughs and heart. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
Three of the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s most recently unbeatable opera stars of the Slavic school have come, seen, and conquered Lieder composed by Richard Strauss and Aribert Reimann. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
Maria Sardaryan gracefully and elegantly establishes herself as a lyric coloratura soprano buttressed with silky vocal clarity and organized discipline as the Queen of the Night. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
Artur Garbas’s vocal performance prowess continues to shine and shimmer as the iconic bird catcher Papageno. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
With a flexible lyric soprano voice competent in tackling coloratura soprano roles and possessing a tone smooth as silk and chiffon, Martina Russomanno embodies the vivacious proprietress Madama Cortese. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
Taking center stage as the lovable brother-and-sister duo Hänsel and Gretel are the creamily velvety-toned Karis Tucker and the charismatically silvery Meechot Marrero. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
There is no better opera to honor my mother’s birthday than Beethoven’s only opera about a woman rescuing her husband from being a political prisoner, with a production that transports the action to modern times. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
The young lyric coloratura soprano Julia Muzychenko tackles Gilda from Verdi’s Rigoletto, one of the many roles that define her ever-flourishing operatic career from soubrette to lyric coloratura. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.
A rising full lyric soprano tackles one of Wagner’s virginally innocent heroines. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.