LENOX - In three concerts over two days, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Andris Nelsons guided Tanglewood’s Music Center Orchestra through one of the most monumental undertakings in ...
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the ...
Surging, rhythmic string music punctuated by piercing horn sounds. Powerful, spine-tingling arias sung at hair-splitting volumes. And then there’s the scene, the one everyone knows even if they’ve ...
It’s a single-set affair – a large balconied room of a stately home. But set designer Jamie Vartan and lighting designer David Plater create so much variety that it is easy to forget that there are ...
Brunnhilde, complete with breastplate, spear and helmet, represents opera to many people. She has been displayed on opera posters as well as appearing as the subject of cartoons. Brunnhilde is a ...
LENOX — Lyndon Johnson would hardly seem in a line of descent from Wagner's Wotan, yet Tanglewood made them brothers under the skin. In a Tanglewood Learning Institute talk, Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke ...
Tonight at 7.30 o'clock the curtain will rise at the Boston Opera House on "Die Walkure," the Harvard Night production for 1926. The opera, which has long been a favorite with Boston audiences, is ...
"It's that woman again," declared a colleague sitting in front of me at the Royal Opera's new Carmen last season: I laughed, because director Damiano Michieletto wields Don José's mother as a figure ...
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