The Man Who Knows Don Giovanni
On the eve of a new production in Turin, master maestro Riccardo Muti unlocks the hero’s secrets
Into the Maelstrom
Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades burns like a fever dream in the hands of Nathalie Stutzman, contralto turned star conductor
Second-Lead Syndrome
Dancing man Tommy Rall steals the screen in MGM’s Kiss Me, Kate
Ahoy for a Shipwreck
In Houston, Louisa Muller directs a long-neglected operatic masterpiece
Danse Macabre
A wicked Rigoletto on the floating stage of Bregenz, Austria
Getting It Right
For the British playwright Alan Bennett, other people’s lives are just the dress rehearsal
The Nuns’ Story
Live from San Francisco, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Poulenc’s gripping chronicle of the French Revolution