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This week I get to fulfill a promise made some time ago to fans of Elektra, both of my generation and the younger Parterriani: the very first Vienna post-war performance of the opera.  The one-time-only cast for the opening of the new production in the...

A Summer began to transition into Autumn, I found myself with less time for my favorite solitary pastime: recordings of live performances of the operas of Richard Wagner. But I spent a long time with a 1975 Bayreuth GOTTERDAMMERUNG, re-listening to certain...

Am I the only one who has found 2014 exhausting? Though that’s a statement that makes me sound scarily like my mother… it’s still true. This year has been a schlepp and while that schlepp has brought out some incredible moments in theatres – and some...

On this day in history… December 27 1825 – 1st public railway using steam locomotive completed in England between Stockton and Darlington 1831 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs England for South America 1871 – World’s first cat show (Crystal Palace...

“Die Frau ohne Schatten’’ or “The Woman without a Shadow” is a difficult opera to assess. It doesn’t play that often, even hardened opera lovers find it a great challenge and the composer himself battled with the confusing libretto. However, in the hands...