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Is 'Tristan' the hardest opera to stage? This director thinks so, and signed on at the Met

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage

The Independent UK · Mar 6

Tenor Piotr Beczała sings different productions of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' 41 hours apart

The tenor Piotr Beczała has been impressing audiences with his back-to-back performances in Wagner's “Lohengrin” in less than 41 hours

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2025

Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York meet in `The Comet/Poppea' at Lincoln Center

“The Comet/Poppea” has started its five-performance run at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City in New York

The Independent UK · Jun 19, 2025

Interwoven short operas in ‘Proximity’ inform and confound but ultimately astound at Lyric Opera

Lyric deserves enormous credit for embracing this undertaking and going all in both in terms of scale and daring. It is, by any measure, a major event.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 26, 2023

At Lyric Opera, ‘Proximity’ is quite possibly an unprecedented approach to short opera trilogies

In a radical departure, the three new operas featured in ‘Proximity’ are not being treated as stand-alone pieces presented in succession, but are interwoven.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 17, 2023

Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Davis revives ‘X,’ his prescient 1986 opera about Malcolm X: ‘A tragic hero’

SAN DIEGO — Serendipity and irony. Foresight and hindsight. A handwritten musical score giving way to a software program. A pandemic giving way to a rebirth.

Tribune News Service · May 3, 2022

New ‘La Boheme’ tells story in reverse for happy ending

A new production of “La Boheme” shakes up the old favorite by telling the story in reverse

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2022