A great pleasure of the performing arts is the opportunity to witness how elastic the classics can be. In opera the same role can transform, again...
Otto Schenk, the prolific Austrian director whose lavishly traditional productions for the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera thrilled generations of music lovers, died on...
Near the time of his achievement in the Met’s “Ring,” in which he managed to invest the faceless staging with vividness, he began little by little...
