Tag: David Pountney
'Lyric Opera of Chicago Announces 2014-15: Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Wagner, Weinberg's 'Passenger'
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'Lyric Opera of Chicago's New Production of Wagner’s "Ring Cycle" Stars Christine Goerke and Eric Owens
Anthony Freud, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, announced that the company will present a new production of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), starting in 2016. -
'The Column: Teresa Berganza’s Tongue-Lashing for Opera Directors, and Why She’s Less than Half-Right
Teresa Berganza, one of the truly great mezzo-sopranos of the 20th century and now in her late 70s, has given a controversial interview to 'Le Figaro.' In it she castigates today's opera directors, at least the ones who "respect neither the time nor the music." She's not the first, she won't be the last, but she's over-simplifying and distorting every bit as much as she accuses the objects of her ire of doing.