Jonas Kaufmann and Friends Take On Schubert at the Armory
The tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars in “Doppelganger,” a staging of “Schwanengesang” by Claus Guth, making his New York debut.
A Conductor Who Wants to Put You ‘Inside the Sound’
Maxime Pascal, a latecomer to classical music, forged an unusual path to the podium that has paid off for him and for audiences.
A Behind-the-Scenes Eminence Shapes a Festival’s Future
Pierre Audi, the artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory, is coming into his own as the leader of the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France.
At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It
Whether in works by Mahler, Mozart or Rossini, directors at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France evoke mass death and refugee crises.
Tobias Kratzer Is Leading Opera’s Next Generation of Directors
With concurrent productions in France that are fresh yet faithful, Kratzer is “renewing opera, but renewing it intelligently,” says one colleague.
A Beckett Play Comes Home to Paris, as an Opera
“Fin de Partie,” an opera of “Endgame,” will be sung at the Palais Garnier in French, the language it was written in.