Séguin, leading this work for the first time, and lastly Sharon’s staging, which was hit or miss (mostly the latter) all night. The star of the night was Davidsen as Isolde. She delivered a stellar, ...

Villa Hills native Logan Wagner is one of only 28 opera singers from around the world to attend this summer’s Merola Opera Program. Wagner grew up on the quiet, suburban shores of Villa Hills. This ...

The second half of the 2025–26 season opens with a Wagner event for the ages, as blazing soprano Lise Davidsen headlines the composer’s all-consuming epic Tristan und Isolde after years of ...

Conductor Juraj Valčuha ably coordinated and balanced the orchestra and the singers, while drawing out the dramatic effects from Wagner's detail-laden score.

A German tenor, he was admired for his clear, powerful voice and his exceptional stamina during hourslong performances. By Adam Nossiter Peter Seiffert, a German tenor admired for his clear, powerful ...

Director Yuval Sharon’s company debut is an imaginative, expansive production headed by two top-flight singers, Lise Davidsen ...

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage ...

In a lounge beneath the Metropolitan Opera, the towering Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is the picture of calm. “My husband jokes I am like a pressure cooker,” she says with a laugh, sitting ...

Yuval Sharon’s debut production featured an astonishing performance by the soprano Lise Davidsen. It is the event of the season.

Staging any opera is rarely a modest undertaking, but if that opera happens to be by Richard Wagner, “modest” must go out the window. Typically, one needs a large theater, an outsized orchestra, and ...