Andrea DelGiudice is an operatic polymath who boasts a dizzying array of talents, skills and passions. Beyond her vibrant career as an Italianate lirico-spinto soprano, DelGiudice has quickly gained recognition as an acclaimed opera stage director, dramaturg, voice teacher and consultant. Her most recent project was the world premiere of Read more…
Director Jennifer Williams is making the opera world more exciting. Bringing a non-traditional voice to an art form drowning in the conventional, Williams is exploring the use of technology – currently video projections – in opera, and digging deeper into the narratives of the standard repertory in an attempt to Read more…
At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 10, 2016, I had the distinct pleasure of witnessing history in the making – I attended the preview night of the first ever Minnesota Opera production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the prologue in Wagner’s epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of Read more…