Matthew Polenzani – operaexplorer

Deciding and choosing the right place: La Favorite with Garanča, Polenzani and Kwiecien thrills and challenges. Bayerische Staatsoper, October 23, 2016

The excitement was in the air, and just looking around you can notice an obvious difference in the audience of the premiere night – most of the people know each other, greeting, chatting and looking for the rooms where their designated reception is held. The main sponsor of BSO, The Linde Group, gathers their crowd at […]

Despair wrapped in poetry. “Werther” by Jules Massenet, Bayerisches Staatsoper, October 31, 2015

Werther as the character of most famous suicidal poet is probably known by everyone who have read Goethe’s novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther) in their youth, for most of us – as part of compulsory program in foreign literature class. Even if many years have passed since graduation, the […]