The festival has found replacements for the Ukrainian bass Dmitry Belosselskiy, who has pulled out for no known reason.
Günther Groissböck, will jump in for him as Landgrave Hermann in Tannhäuser; Mika Kares will sing Hagen in Götterdämmerung.
We hear that Stephen Rose, former head of…
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The steady departure of cherished professors at the…
The prolific international conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, diagnosed…
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The night I heard him sing Daland (June 7) in the recent run of Met Dutchman, his voice sounded in poor shape.
NATO must have stopped footing the bill.
Just listened yesterday to Mika Kares as Hagen in Götterdämmerung in the Wiener Staatsoper. He was excellent!
He has a russian passport, so he is not a ukrainian bass, though he was born in Ukraine.
So Anna Netrebko, who holds an Austrian passport, is not Russian….?
Norman, why is this illustrated with a picture of Plácido Domingo? I am puzzling over this one.
I don’t know, either. Must have got mislabelled
A passport only gives you the right to travel and sometimes with a fictious nationality. people going around with all kinds of passports and never lived in the country. So many suddenly becoming Irish to get round travel problems with a UK passport and Brexit to the UK, finding out they had one grand parent who was Irish, but pre-1922 they were actually on British passports.
What does Domingo dressed up as Nabucco (?) have to do with this story?