Otello in Athens
Robert Wilson tackles Verdi in the birthplace of tragedy
The Music Man
From the stage of the San Francisco Opera, Jakub Józef Orliński’s Orpheus enchants the Golden Gate
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