As wonderfully as Giacomo Puccini’s opera has been served in the studio, this Warner Classics release is up there with the best.
The veteran broadcaster chats with SFCV about his new podcast project, which explores the Black experience in classical music.
With James Conlon conducting a sensitive account of the score, and a fine cast to boot, there is no mystery to the success of this production.
The 2023–2024 season sees Esa-Pekka Salonen realizing many of the ambitious plans he had previously set out to undertake.
Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens’s operatic take on The Tempest succeeds most in musical moments that depart entirely from the original.
Though the competition is formidable, Willis-Sørensen stands up to the greatest sopranos who have interpreted this song cycle.
