Turning Point
Patrice Chéreau’s “Centennial Ring” at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976 changed history
Lift Every Voice and Sing
From Heartbeat Opera, a Fidelio for our time
The Nuns’ Story
Live from San Francisco, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Poulenc’s gripping chronicle of the French Revolution
Getting It Right
For the British playwright Alan Bennett, other people’s lives are just the dress rehearsal
Danse Macabre
A wicked Rigoletto on the floating stage of Bregenz, Austria
Ahoy for a Shipwreck
In Houston, Louisa Muller directs a long-neglected operatic masterpiece