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
Lift Every Voice and Sing
From Heartbeat Opera, a Fidelio for our time
Turning Point
Patrice Chéreau’s “Centennial Ring” at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976 changed history
Incantation
Decaying film stock, the Song of Songs, and the seraphic soprano of Angel Blue