The company debut of tenor Ben Heppner is like the nerve racking appearance of “a great veteran baseball pitcher” By Todd McCarthy READ MORE THR REVIEWS Women dominate the men in this under-achieving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eun Sun Kim during a sound check at Saint Joseph's Arts Society, 2025. (Kristen Loken) San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun ...

A revival of David Alden’s war-torn staging of Wagner’s early opera finds disturbing new resonance with current events; in the pit Jakub Hrůša has an unerring sense of the work’s structure It is only ...

Wagner's Lohengrin transforms historical events from the tenth century into a mythic romance exploring the limitations of faith and love. At the center is Elsa, the princess of Brabant, who stands ...

Even listeners with strong memories of Brandon Jovanovich's earlier appearances at the San Francisco Opera - including powerful performances in "Madama Butterfly" and "Die Walküre" - might have been ...

Klaus Florian Vogt's Lohengrin tries to console bride Elsa (Jennifer Davis) as Ortrud (Christine Goerke) throws a spanner in the works Davis holds her own here, too, pushing the question with perfect ...

Lohengrin is the most mistily romantic of Wagner’s mature operas but you would never have guessed it from the way that Antony McDonald has directed and designed it for this new Welsh National Opera ...