Die Frau ohne Schatten had its U.S. premiere in San Francisco and is a complicated piece to bring to the stage.
The Korean soprano brings her Italian training and experience of motherhood to the role of Cio-Cio-San.
It’s the latest accolade for an opera that continues to wow audiences and critics alike.
Toshi and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s operatic rendering of Octavia Butler’s novel is scarily on point but also musically winning.
The group’s season-ending concert was devoted to Handel’s Apollo and Daphne and Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pygmalion.