Emily D’Angelo soars in Tesori’s gripping and powerful Grounded on the Met’s 2024/25 opening night

United StatesUnited States Jeanine Tesori, Grounded: Soloists, Men of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 23.9.2024. (RP)

Emily D’Angelo (Jess) and Kyle Miller (Sensor) © Ken Howard/Met Opera

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Imaginative and intelligent revision of Der Freischütz in Oldenburg

GermanyGermany Weber, Der Freischütz (Additional music by Elena Kats-Chernin. Libretto by Friedrich Kind, in a new version by Susanne Felicitas Wolf): Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester / Hendrik Vestmann (conductor). Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 18.9.2024. (DMD)

Stephanie Hershaw (Ännchen ), Johannes Leander Maas (Max), Adréana Kraschewski (Agathe) © Stephan Walzl

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San Francisco Opera’s The Handmaid’s Tale could not be timelier, even if the music feels dated

United StatesUnited States Poul Ruders, The Handmaid’s Tale: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Karen Kamensek (conductor). War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 14.9.2024. (HS)

The Commander (John Relyea), Offred (Irene Roberts) and Serena Joy (Lindsay Ammann) © Corey Weaver/SFO

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