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It was a last-minute upset, but not unusual for the Bayreuth Festival. Conductor Andris Nelsons called off his opening night performance and will be replaced by Hartmut Haenchen. Here's a history of Bayreuth drop-outs.
Robert Wilson’s staging of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” opened to a wall of boos in 1998. But it brought new theatrical possibilities to the Met.
The one with the big bed, not the big clock. Forgive me, but the above reference is shorthand for the last two Metropolitan Opera Live in HD productions of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” In 2017, local opera ...
Handsomely sung, played and staged, this production just misses the heart of darkness. Opera review by David Nice