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Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ production of Richard Strauss’s Salome got a lot of attention last summer.

Now the production is open in San Francisco, and it’s getting even more. It has a new cast; from the sound of…

Christine Brewer

Soprano Christine Brewer, the pride of Lebanon, Illinois, recently returned from singing (and touristing) in Australia. She performed Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” in Melbourne; elsewhere, she and her husband, Ross, communed with assorted marsupials, including quokkas, best described as…

Tom Corbeil (Oracle), Matthew Morris (Apollo) & Christine Brewer (Alceste) Photo by Ken Howard

SANTA FE - Christine Brewer’s performance in the title role of Gluck’s Alceste on Wednesday night showed the soprano in prime vocal condition, singing through her long, challenging…

SANTA FE - Soprano Christine Brewer went through some hard times, physically and emotionally, after a knee injury forced her to withdraw from her first fully staged performances of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle at the Metropolitan Opera last spring.

“I was totally…

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra director of communications Adam Crane has sent out the final schedule for Saturday’s radiothon on KFUO, 99.1 FM.

Crane, who’s been getting a lot of exposure in recent weeks for his part in “The Soloist,” says he’ll…

Lebanon, Ill.-based soprano Christine Brewer may have blown out her knee, but her voice is just fine — and she was once again the go-to replacement for an ailing soprano in a big sing, this time with the Santa Fe…

As previously noted, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will hold a radiothon before and during the performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the “Choral,” this Saturday, May 9, starting at 4 p.m. on KFUO (99.1 FM) and ending about six…

NEW YORK – I planned my trip to New York around the happy confluence of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s annual concerts at Carnegie Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings, and soprano Christine Brewer’s scheduled Bruennhilde in “Die Walkuere” at…

St. Louis-based soprano Christine Brewer has suffered severe damage to her right knee, and has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” Brewer was to have sung the crucial role of the Valkyrie Brünnhilde in two complete cycles,…

St. Louis-based dramatic soprano Christine Brewer was already scheduled to do her first fully-staged Brünnhildes in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at New York’s Metropolitan Opera; now she’s added another cycle to that wash.

Brewer was set to sing the role…