Why Opera?

February 2008

General

Opera is an amazing art form – possibly the supreme art form, but what exactly is opera? First and foremost, it is the musical enactment of drama, so the…

Welser-Möst in Vienna

November 2007

General

 As if the pressure of a new Staatsoper Ring cycle wasn’t enough for any conductor, Franz Welser-Möst comes to it this month—Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s production begins with Die Walküre, and…