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
Brilliant top notes and a bright future are what constitute Aigul Khismatullina’s journey in essaying the title role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. 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.
How did one of Deutsche Oper Berlin’s veteran basses fare as the stern yet kindly Padre Guardiano? Please find out in my review and let me know your opinions as well.
Going from strength to strength in his ever-flourishing career and possessing a brilliant future in more leading man roles is Byung Gil Kim who tackled the role of the imperious high priest Ramfis. Please enjoy my review and let me know your opinions as well.
With an ever-strengthening vocal presence, heaps of discipline, and a phenomenal technique by his side, how did Alfred Kim fare as Calaf, a role he has been specializing for many years? Find out in my review.
Boasting such a vast repertoire from playing vibrant young men to sexy, sumptuous, sinuous seductresses, how did this mezzo-soprano fare in one of her signature roles? Enjoy my review to find out and let me know your opinions as well.
Two singers whose voices I have heard for the first time embodying the mythical ice princess and the intrepid warrior prince. Two singers who have made their role debuts as an old King of Tartar and a sweet slave girl. How well did they all hold up in the end? Find out more in this review.
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.