Ascending from her beginnings in more florid roles to tackling the steelier ones, Olesya Golovneva tackles the irresistible yet unhinged Princess Salome of Judea. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
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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.
Striking again with leonine vengeance as the bile-spewing, dejected, acrimonious nobleman Count Monterone is Byung Gil Kim, who continues to demonstrate unstoppable indomitability as a singing actor. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
From the first time I witnessed Brenda Rae as the witty Zerbinetta nearly a decade ago to now witnessing her as the innocent Gilda, I assess how she tackles one of her signature roles from the Italian repertoire. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
Gallantry, exuberance, vigor, virility, aplomb, nobility, and regality are the attributes in Andrei Danilov’s dashing portrayal of Prince Tamino, a role he has been singing for over a decade. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions.
One of today’s greatest interpreters of the basso profondo repertoire entertained families with holiday classics dressed as the Sankt Nikolaus, Father Christmas, or Santa Claus. 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.
Magnificent musicianship, grandiose gallantry, and pristine peerlessness are the hallmarks that make Thomas Lehman flourish as a superb baritone embodying the earnestly noble Wolfram von Eschenbach. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.
It is out with the Middle-Age fairs and in with the 1990s to 2000s Croc shoes in Jossie Wieler’s, Anna Viebrock’s, and Sergio Morabito’s production Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.
Conquering the Heldentenor repertoire focusing on Wagner in international opera houses around America and Europe is Clay Hilley, who tackles this wayward knight and court singer. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.