What War Does to People — The Psychological Depth of Prokofiev’s War and Peace
It is named after a war. It unfolds on the scale of an empire….
The Next Twenty Years — China’s Artistic Identity and the Future of Opera and Ballet
The halls are already built. The orchestras are assembling. The question that Valery Gergiev…
Gergiev at the Guangzhou Opera House
Three hundred Russians. Dozens of Chinese extras. One stage that stopped time. When the…
A Journey Completed: Jaap van Zweden on Götterdämmerung and the HK Phil’s Ring Cycle Finale
Four years. Four epic music dramas. One extraordinary orchestra transformed by the weight of…
The Audience That Walked Away — and What Came Next
The seats emptied slowly. Then all at once. And in that silence, opera discovered…
Airport Culture and the Art of Belonging
When Every Stage Looks the Same Land in Miami. Land in Bahrain. The terminal…
Bold, Sensible, and Unstoppable: Sir David Pountney on Opera’s Future
Fifty years at the heart of an art form. A voice still restless with…
Art as Food for the Soul: What Music Teaches Us About Being Human
Jaap van Zweden has a phrase he returns to often. Art, he says, is…
How Wagner’s Ring Cycle Transformed the HK Phil
Four years. Four operas. One orchestra, fundamentally changed. The Hong Kong Philharmonic’s Ring Cycle…
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