Review | Bayreuth Festival 2024: Wagner revisited
One of the most unique features of the annual Bayreuth Festival dedicated to the operas of Richard Wagner is the opportunity it affords to revisit…
Browsing: Michael Spyres
CD Review | In the Shadows (Erato, 2024)
The concept behind Michael Spyres’s new album, In the Shadows, is an original one—as is the order of the selected repertoire.
Michael Spyres: Wagner in Context
The latest recording by American tenor Michael Spyres, In the Shadows, exemplifies just what makes him stand out in the current hype-driven, Instagram-heavy opera landscape.
La Scena Tête-à-tête: Michael Spyres
In this Tête à tête segment, Don Adriano interviews Michael Spyres for La Scena Musicale during his passage through Montreal to sing at the Lanaudière…
Review: In Munich, a Tale of Two Operas
The Bavarian State Opera is the largest house in Germany and among the most difficult to characterize in a few words. Vocal standards are high,…
Michael Spyres at Lanaudière: A Masterclass in Belcanto
On Thursday, July 11, along with my opera fans colleagues, we withstood a road full with traffic, heavy rain and stormy winds to the Église…
Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O18: The Whirlwind That Was
REVIEW: of Opera Philadelphia’s “Festival O18” (September 20-30, 2018) – a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, composed by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Salvadore…
Lebrecht Weekly: Berlioz: Les Troyens (Erato)
Berlioz: Les Troyens (Erato) John Nelson, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Marie-Nicole Lemieux Almost every new release I sampled this week should never have been made.…
Lebrecht Weekly – Joyce El-Khoury, Michael Spyres (Opera Rara)
Now here’s a surprise. A new release from Opera Rara usually consists of some bel canto work that has languished forgotten in a vault since its premiere…
