Nelsen, a Santa Barbara native, will sing the role of Suzuki in this weekend’s Opera Santa Barbara production of Madame Butterfly. It’s a very important part, and one that Nelsen has, in the past few ...

Immediately following the June 4 opening performance of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, soprano Nina Stemme, who performed the role of the Dyer’s ...

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nina Stemme tilted back her head after the final notes of her 126th and last Isolde performance, and her eyes filled with tears. She was hugged by tenor Stuart Skelton and ...

With powerhouse soprano Nina Stemme in the title role, the Cleveland Orchestra’s concert account of Strauss’s “Salome” requires no visual aids. So vivid is her portrayal of the spurned princess, ...

Midway through her engagement at Houston Grand Opera performing Tristan und Isolde this April, acclaimed soprano Nina Stemme joins the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in New York for a single performance on ...

I love the operas of Leos Janacek. So do audiences — when they go to see them. But the works remain stubbornly on the outskirts of the repertory. By Zachary Woolfe “Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” a dense ...

The great soprano was as expressively generous as ever but Nina Stemme was ill-served by Magnus Svensson in this recital that featured Mahler and Wagner at its centre Over the past 20 years, Nina ...