| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 8-Feb-2013 Civic Opera House | Die Meistersinger fills the stage at Chicago's Lyric Opera |
 On Friday, a new co-production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg opened at the Lyric. The only comedy among Wagner’s mature music dramas, its sound is very much like that of the better-known tragedies – brassy, overfull, with a core of strings teetering at vibrato’s edge. But its style is heterogeneous where the tragedies are homogeneous, shifting rapidly through a Wagner-index of tropes and melodic figures.Read full review... | |
| 22-Nov-2012 Theater an der Wien | Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide at the Theater an der Wien |
 Institutional violence has been a running theme in Torsten Fischer’s series of Gluck operas at the Theater an der Wien, albeit with a lid kept firmly on the idea of actual conflict.Read full review... | |
