St. Louis-based soprano Christine Brewer seems to be the go-to woman for conductors and presenters in North America and Europe.

This time it was a call to sub for Finnish soprano Karita Mattila. The concert was the first night of the…

With James Levine out for the summer (unlike Mark Mulder, there is hope that he’ll return in six weeks’ time in top form) due to surgery, various substitutes are being called in.

The first one in is former St. Louis…

Hitting print too late to be included in Sunday’s roundup of other critics’ opinions of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis season just ended was Heidi Waleson’s review for The Wall Street Journal.

Published in the weekend edition of July 5-6,…

…and you helped.

Soprano Christine Brewer is based in the St. Louis area, but she does a lot of singing in Great Britain. She was among the nominees for the “BBC Listeners’ Award 2008″ this year — and she won. The…

When I was a girl in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas, we studied state history while tiptoeing lightly around two of the most interesting characters: Carrie Nation and John Brown.

Nation, who took her tomahawk into saloons and…

No, tenor Juan Diego Florez didn’t do an encore to “Ah, mes amis,” despite a long and lusty accolade from the beyond-appreciative crowd. But he did just about everything else in a manner calculated to please the far-flung audiences of…

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a page-one feature on an endangered species: the prompter. Prompters help to save singers’ musical lives, by being on the spot with musical cues and words where needed. But opera houses are using fewer of…

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Is there too much high-def opera available in movie houses now? Well, not as far as the Met’s concerned, at any rate: Next year’s season will expand the number of transmissions (to 11, up from eight), the number of places…

The Wagnerites turned out in force at the Art Museum on Saturday for “Tristan und Isolde,” live from the Met in HD broadcast. It starred soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Robert Dean Smith – her fourth Tristan in as many…

To the Met, La Scala and San Francisco, add yet another convert to the HD broadcast faith: The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The ROH has announced that it will broad four (prerecorded, a la La Scala and the SFO) ballets…