Bonnie Tyler’s soulful 1984 plaint “Holding Out for a Hero,” was finally answered Saturday afternoon when tenor Stefan Vinke made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Wagner’s Siegfried.

“I was — we say blauaugig, blue-eyed — too innocent or naive to think about the risk I took,” he says, reflecting on the potential shredding of his voice. “My career could have ended in that year but ...

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Kam zur Oper wie die Jungfrau zum Kind: Stefan Vinke in der SBS-Redaktion am Federation Square in Melbourne Source: SBS German tenor Stefan Vinke is about to embark on one of his toughest gigs: A 6.5 ...

Call it “Siegfried” and chill, or maybe bingeable Wagner. The Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of “Siegfried” is the third opera in Robert Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle. A ...

German tenor Stefan Vinke was in Melbourne in November 2018, performing four times in Opera Australia’s monumental production “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” by Richard Wagner. We asked Vinke to tell ...

To make it the all-round greatest, more careful direction of movement and motivation would be necessary from a production which never kept close enough track on the human interaction, though these two ...

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Strong casting triumphs over illness in this revival of Tim Albery’s Wagner production This revival of Tim Albery’s staging of Wagner’s work was hit by one of those problems that beset opera during ...

The Atlanta Opera will produce all four parts of Wagner’s monumental Der Ring des Nibelungen. Jay Hunter Morris, a beloved Atlanta Opera tenor, is in a unique position to assess the challenge these ...

Covent Garden’s latest offering this season is the second revival of Tim Albery’s production of Wagner’s eccentric masterpiece, Tannhäuser. Set in the 13th century, its story concerns a singer who ...