This is a year full of questions at Bayreuth. To mark the Festival’s 150th anniversary, we were given the experiment—apparently a one-off—of an AI-generated Ring.…
Valentin Schwarz’s production of Wagner’s Ring had its final outing at this year’s Bayreuth Festival with two complete cycles, the second of which I saw…
Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” was magnificently performed this weekend by the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Guest Conductor Phillipe Jordan, music director of…