Month: May 2024

With ears fully saturated by Atlanta’s heavy dose of Wagner (rumor has it Waltrauto attended every performance of Die Walkure), I traveled to Mormon Country seeking the perfect palate cleanser in the form of Utah Opera’s production of Massenet’s Thaïs.…

With the ethereal afterglow of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream still lingering in the air, Atlanta opera goers prepared for the operatic event of the past…well, four decades. The unveiling of the company’s first production of the second opera in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the cycle’s most popular work and a premiere that may surely expand the company’s artistic ambitions, loomed at the end of April.…