The New York Times – Music:
Among the highlights are the world premiere of an adaptation of “Lincoln in the Bardo,” and classics like “Macbeth” and “Jenufa.”
Category: Guth, Claus
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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For
The New York Times – Music:
Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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‘Doppelganger’ Review: A Soldier Confronts His Mortality
The New York Times – Music:
At the Park Avenue Armory, an imaginative and viscerally shocking staging of Schubert songs from the director Claus Guth and the tenor Jonas Kaufmann.
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Jonas Kaufmann and Friends Take On Schubert at the Armory
The New York Times – Music:
The tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars in “Doppelganger,” a staging of “Schwanengesang” by Claus Guth, making his New York debut.
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Review: A Met Opera-Bound ‘Semele’ Takes Its First Bows
The New York Times – Music:
Claus Guth’s entertaining and often sexy new staging of Handel’s opera-oratorio hybrid in Munich is a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera.
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Park Avenue Armory Season Spotlights Homelessness and Medical Ethics
The New York Times – Music:
Highlights include Robert Icke’s moral thriller “The Doctor” and the tenor Jonas Kaufmann in a staging of Franz Schubert’s final songs.
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At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter
The New York Times – Music:
With two grim premieres among the offerings, Monteverdi’s sharp “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” was the highlight of a week of opera.