Review | Herheim’s Inconsistent Ring at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Few works in the operatic repertory present greater challenges to contemporary stage directors than Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wagner’s tetralogy exists simultaneously as myth, philosophy,…
Browsing: Donald Runnicles
MSO, Nagano bring in the Toronto hordes
Quite a crowd in Roy Thomson Hall for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano. Apparently the American maestro’s magnetism, combined with the good name…
TSO gets the Strauss part just right
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has no principal guest conductor, but it has some good friends. This weekend the Scotsman Donald Runnicles makes his second visit…
Video of the Day – The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns to China
The Philadelphia Orchestra was the first American orchestra to appear in China when it gave concerts there in 1973. The Cultural Revolution was still underway…
