Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfnZWkLWp3s But what on earth has Verdi done to them ? The question of staging Verdi’s works would merit an entire article, and here we shall merely…

Read in the Wanderer Blog (in French) Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Daniele Gatti (Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, May 2016) Tristan und Isolde, conducted by…

Preliminary questions The first question that arises is that the work was undoubtedly conceived before the American election. Thus, what appeared to be fiction two…

We see no need to revisit the turbulent history of this work, which we have already discussed at length in our previous article on…

Premises Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is undoubtedly one of the most important works of the twentieth century, but also of the entire operatic repertoire. The…

Memories… Memories Let's start with a memory. Queuing at the Paris Opera at the Palais Garnier for a performance of Tosca in those days when queues…

The impossible opera It has often been written that Fidelio is a paradoxical work. It is popular, celebrated as one of the classics of the international…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieX8Q7pzuT0 Premise Ruslan and Ludmila, considered the first Russian national opera, opened the renovated Bolshoi Theatre in 2011 in a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov conducted by…

  The title ‘The Maid of Orleans’ sums up Jeanne's legend better than any other. She is first and foremost a “Maid”, and even though…