What happens when you have Maestro Marc Minkowski conducting up a storm with Adam Smith as the main hero and Jessica Pratt as the four main heroines in Bordeaux’s gorgeous and awesome opera house? Sit back, relax, enjoy, and find out in my review.
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Señora Ana María Martínez. A soprano whose career I have been following for fifteen years and whose repertoire has parallels with Sena Jurinac, Victoria de los Angeles, and Montserrat Caballé graces the stage in one of her signature roles. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
Taking up Violetta’s finely-laced mantle was a young, lithe, sleek soprano who has gained some fame around Europe, Zuzana Marková. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
It was my first opera night at Paris’s Opéra Bastille and what better way to kick this off than with Bellini’s final opera directed by someone who is very famous for dark, gothic productions. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
After years of tackling the Mozartean repertoire, Christopher Maltman ascends to the challenge to tackle the tragic hunchback court jester while being joined by a cast of vibrant, young singers with loads of potential. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
Florian Sempey rises to the challenge to take on the role of Hamlet the Prince of Denmark, whose quest to avenge his father’s murder unravels in this concert version of Ambroise Thomas’s opera of the same name. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
Fresh from his role debut as the Venetian Moor in Toronto, Canada, Russell Thomas brought this iconic tragic hero to Berlin where he was joined by a cavalcade of superstars, including the pristine Guanqun Yu and the dynamic George Gagnidze. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
At times, this famous Bizet opera might as well be renamed “Micaela” and I bet you already know why. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
A charming young lyric coloratura soprano rises to the challenge to bring one of the most famous Donizetti Bel Canto heroines of all time to the stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
A former Chrysothemis and a youthful lyric soprano rise to the challenge to perform this high-octane sister act.