Every so often, a performance hits you right in the solar plexus. That’s how it was for me with Sunday afternoon’s performance of Schubert’s great song cycle Winterreise. Presented in the Dallas Opera ...

Baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated by audiences and critics alike for a voice that ‘belongs to the last of the old great masters of song’ with ‘an almost infinite range of colours’ (Suddeutsche ...

There were passages of seriousness: Gustav Mahler’s dolorous opener, leavened by the sunny and saucy Alma Mahler that followed, and Reynaldo Hahn’s touchingly ingenuous take on Bach, “À Chloris”.

Young German-English baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu were a sensation of San Francisco Performances' 2022-23 season. "Dynamic contrasts, from stormy fortissimos to whispery ...