We will apologize beforehand because you are going to be hearing a few opera titles repeatedly quite a bit over the next few weeks. You know which ones and they comprise a major part of our recommendations for the first major holiday weekend of the season. The Magic Flute – LA Opera Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s immersive “Magic Flute” {…}
The Washington National Opera is set to present Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” for the first time in 30 years. The company will revive Robert Carsen’s classic production, originally created for the Metropolitan Opera. In the lead roles, the company has lined up two Bolshoi Opera singers. In the title role, baritone Igor Golovatenko will make his American and WNO debut and {…}
It is hard to imagine Russian music without Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Russian literature without poet Alexander Pushkin. Tchaikovsky’s opera “The Queen of Spades,” based on the eponymous novella by Pushkin, is one of the most important of the existing operas. Its beautiful and dark music leaves hardly any hope at the end, revealing a very fatalistic, and very Slavic, way {…}