Pulliam and Maltman make star turns in Cleveland in Welser-Möst’s breathtakingly focused Otello

United StatesUnited States Verdi, Otello (concert version): Soloists, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Children’s Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall, Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 21.5.2022. (MSJ)

Christopher Maltman (Iago), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Emilia), Tamara Wilson (Desdemona), Limmie Pulliam (Otello), Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Franz Welser-Most © Roger Mastroianni 

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Simon Stone’s Rust Belt Lucia di Lammermoor at the Met shows Nadine Sierra is one for the ages!

United StatesUnited States The Met: Live in HD – Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Riccardo Frizza (conductor). Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 21.5.2021. (JPr)

Javier Camarena (Edgardo) and Nadine Sierra (Lucia) on screen (c) Jonathan Tichler

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For Stefan Herheim’s Berlin Siegfried ‘The play’s the thing’ as Clay Hilley impresses in the title role

GermanyGermany Wagner, Siegfried: Soloists, actors, Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sir Donald Runnicles (conductor). Filmed (directed by Götz Filenius) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in November 2021 and now available on Marquee TV. (JPr)

Iain Paterson (Wanderer) and Jordan Shanahan (Alberich) © Bernd Uhlig

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Stefan Herheim’s tide of humanity reimagines Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in Berlin

GermanyGermany Wagner, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre: Soloists, actors, Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sir Donald Runnicles (conductor). Filmed (directed by Götz Filenius) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in November 2021 and now available on Marquee TV. (JPr)

Deutsche Oper Berlin’s Das Rheingold © Bernd Uhlig

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Der Rosenkavalier at the Bayerisches Staatsoper: the end of an era or the beginning of a new one?

GermanyGermany R. Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra des Bayerisches Staatsoper / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Nationaltheater Munich, 11.5.2022 (ALL)

Marlis Petersen (Marschallin), Christof Fischesser (Ochs) and Samantha Hankey (‘Mariandel’) © Wilfried Hösl

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