Stephen Wadsworth

OPERA: CultureZohn (Singing in the Streets)

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Wadsworth, Metropolitan Opera, Die Walkure, Anna Netrebko, Deborah Voigt, Lincoln Center, Le Comte Ory, Bart Sher, Fashion Week, La Traviata, Peter Gelb, Times Square, Don Carlo, Boris Godunov, Das Rheingold, Juan Diego Florez, Robert Lepage, Nixon in China, Stephanie Blythe, Arts News
Patricia Zohn

2010-09-27-rheingoldbox.jpgThe Metropolitan Opera offers proof that the double dealing, back-stabbing, larger-than-life emotion of Wagner rivals any of our great governmental dramas.

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Make Nice or I Quit!

Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Wadsworth, Metropolitan Opera, State Department Bureaucrats, Boris Godunov, Peter Stein, Work Visas, Modest Mussorgsky, Valery Gergiev, Peter Gelb, Arts News
Ivan Katz

When Peter Stein and the Metropolitan Opera attempted to flesh out the back story behind Stein's withdrawal from a new production of Boris Godunov, the formerly mysterious story became utterly incomprehensible.

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World Premiere of Daron Hagen's Opera Amelia

Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Wadsworth, Opera, Daron Aric Hagen, Gardner McFall, World Premiere, Amelia, Seattle Opera, Kate Lindsay, Nathan Gunn, William Burden, Arts News
Ivan Katz

On May 8, 2010, the world premiere of Daron Aric Hagen's opera Amelia, to a libretto by Gardner McFall, took place at the Seattle Opera.

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