Ariadne auf Naxos: All hail Nina the Great
Strauss-Hofmannsthal, Ariadne auf Naxos. Metropolitan Opera, 2/4/2010. Conducted by Kirill Petrenko with Nina Stemme (Ariadne), Kathleen Kim (Zerbinetta), Sarah Connolly (Komponist), Michael Hendrick...
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Ariadne auf Naxos: I’m voting you off the island
Around a year ago, I saw Ariadne auf Naxos at the Met, a performance that, while not bad, was mostly worth seeing for Nina Stemme’s powerful Ariadne. The city might have changed in the meantime, but...
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Tristan! Isolde! in Munich!
This performance was a wonderful surprise. I went to see Nina Stemme’s Isolde, expecting not much more than the usual Festival mishmash out of the rest and worried about the prospects of Ben Heppner...
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Nina Stemme comes out ahead in Carnegie Hall’s Salome
I went to Salome at Carnegie Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra and Nina Stemme and Eric Owens and Franz Welser-Möst and I wrote about it for Bachtrack. “When I looked at you, I heard secret music,”...
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Götterdämmerung: Euro crash
Andreas Kriegenburg’s Munich Ring is about society and community. How do people treat each other, how do large groups organize themselves, and how do we tell our own stories? The Ring, he suggests, is...
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Elektra at the Met
The late Patrice Chéreau’s production of Elektra is surely the highlight of this season at the Met. We’ve known that it was going to be for a while. It arrives a known quantity; acclaimed from its...
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