The holiday season is fast approaching. Nina Minasyan’s luscious creaminess and lovely elegance as Olympia, the mechanical Christmas doll, are wonderful gifts to give any opera fan. Please enjoy my review and share your thoughts. https://youtu.be/hNXGjxEc1uM
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Start spreading the news, for Lydia Steier’s production of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann takes on a New York setting at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions. https://youtu.be/6ALZERMmFag
Damiano Michieletto’s production of Jenufa transports the action from a bucolic Moravian village to a cold, desolate, icy locale with minimal props. At least Evelyn Herlitzius and Asmik Grigorian carry the evening. Enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.
Rainelle Krause, a lyric coloratura soprano renowned for her fearlessness as an aerial acrobat, heralds the stage as one of her calling-card roles, The Queen of the Night, alongside the astounding light lyric soprano Victoria Randem as Pamina and the sweet soprano light lyric coloratura Regina Koncz as Papagena. Enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.
It’s The Magic Flute complete with marionettes, flying around the stage, and loads of color. Enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.