Matthias Goerne at the Des Knaben Wunderhorn concert at Shanghai Symphony Hall on Sunday. German baritone Matthias Goerne, who stands "among the all-time great interpreters of Schubert's Lieder" according to the esteemed global music label DG, is touring China, performing his most celebrated repertoire, starting with two recent concerts in Shanghai. On Sunday evening, he presented the song cycle Des …
In 1938, Los Angeles suffered one of the worst floods in its history caused by once-in-a-lifetime storms in February and March. That summer the Hollywood Bowl staged what is said to be the most spectacular event in its history: a production of Wagner’s opera “Die Walküre,” which chronicles the needs for humanity to save a world being destroyed by greedy, …
