Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted splendidly as his tenure as the company’s music director began with a new, traditional staging of Verdi’s classic. By Anthony Tommasini For his debut as the company’s ...

Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari, 'Kubla, great Khan of the Tartars', Movements: Fra i barbari sospetti (Le) Cercle de l'Harmonie Diana Damrau, Soprano Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor Antonio Salieri, Composer ...

So in a practical sense whatever happened dramatically in this Puritani was driven by Damrau aggressive physicality, darting and swooping and twitching to express the heroine's incipient madness.

Soprano Diana Damrau has been performing on the world’s leading opera and concert stages for two decades. Her vast repertoire spans title roles in Anna Bolena (Opera House Zurich, Vienna State Opera), ...