Siegfried
From left: James Morris (Wanderer/Wotan), Wendy White (Erda), Otto Schenk (director), James Levine, Christian Franz (Siegfried) and Iréne Theorin (Brunnhilde.) More cast photos […]
Opera
Lords of The Ring
"Life is travel and change. Such pleasures I cannot give up." (Wotan, Das Rheingold, Scene 2) I don't get chills
Der Ring
Five years ago, my friend Pat and I paid $140 each for the privilege of seeing Wagner's Ring at the
Song Play
Singspiel ("Song-play") – a style of opera that combines music with spoken text – has been around for nearly three centuries.
Tough Times
It's not the happiest of times in the rarefied world of big-time music, as these recent announcements can attest. Ticket
Opera Dance
The East Village Opera Company, which amplifies traditional arias with rock instrumentation, brought their act to the Joyce Theater last night