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Christopher Ruel is an opera journalist, fiction writer, and entrepreneur. He began writing for OperaWire in 2018 and has interviewed some of opera’s reigning divas and divos, including Kathryn Lewek, Erin Morley, Stephen Costello, Christine Goerke, Susan Graham, Danielle de Niese, and Zachary James. His work with OperaWire also includes general news, stage reviews, and a monthly album review column—Off the Beaten Track. He has penned profiles of opera companies, administrators, conductors, com…

Chris Ruel’s Journalist Portfolio

At Home With - Soprano Danielle de Niese in Glyndebourne - Opera Wire

At Home With - Soprano Danielle de Niese in Glyndebourne - Opera Wire

(Credit: Frances Marshall) "At Home With... " is a brand new series collaboration between OperaWire and photo…

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Q & A: Composer Evan Mack on His New Album 'The Travelled Road' - Opera Wire

Q & A: Composer Evan Mack on His New Album 'The Travelled Road' - Opera Wire

On March 26, award-winning composer Evan Mack's new album of art song, "The Travelled Road" released worldwid…

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Q & A: Lucas & Irina Meachem on Co-Founding Perfect Day Music Foundation & Its Inaugural Virtual ...

Q & A: Lucas & Irina Meachem on Co-Founding Perfect Day Music Foundation & Its Inaugural Virtual ...

Grammy® Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem and his wife, pianist, Irina, saw injustice up close this past s…

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At Home With - Mezzo-Soprano Taxiarchoula Kanati in Stuttgart - Opera Wire

At Home With - Mezzo-Soprano Taxiarchoula Kanati in Stuttgart - Opera Wire

"At Home With... " is a series collaboration between OperaWire and photographer Frances Marshall of Marshall …

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Q&A: 13-Year-Old Welsh Treble Cai Thomas on His Album 'Seren' & Singing the 'Pembrokeshire Murder...

Q&A: 13-Year-Old Welsh Treble Cai Thomas on His Album 'Seren' & Singing the 'Pembrokeshire Murder...

I first heard the Welsh lullaby "Suo Gân" watching Steven Spielberg's 1987 film, "Empire of the Sun." The mov…

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Off the Beaten Track: Zachary James' 'CALL OUT' - A Wild Trip with a Literary Bent - Opera Wire

Off the Beaten Track: Zachary James' 'CALL OUT' - A Wild Trip with a Literary Bent - Opera Wire

Off the Beaten Track is an album review series that takes readers on a cross-disciplinary journey through rec…

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Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Review: La Bohème

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By Chris Ruel 
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I’ve seen “La Bohème” many times, which means I usually know within a few minutes how it’s going to go. Puccini doesn’t ask for permission to rip your heart out; an unrelenting sense of tragedy is the hallmark of his work. At some point, the opera either grabs you, or it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t, you sit there thinking, okay… why isn’t this hitting me? Put another way: why am I not crying?
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Curtis Opera Theatre 2025-26 Review: La Passion de Simone

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By Chris Ruel 
| Opera Wire
Photo: Wide Eyed Studios On February 26, 2026, Curtis Opera Theatre presented something that was… unique. Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023) deliberately stripped away the familiar scaffolding of opera—no heroes, no villains, no tidy narrative arc—and replaced it with something closer to performance art with a score. Sung in French with English supertitles, “La Passion de Simone” is a 75-minute, no-intermission work that left me genuinely perplexed. In the best way.
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Kaufman Music Center 2026 Review: The 2026 George & Nora London Competition Finals - OperaWire

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By Chris Ruel 
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(Photo: Beth Bergman) On Friday, February 20, 2026, the Kaufman Music Center hosted the finals of the George and Nora London Foundation Competition. Ten up-and-coming vocalists from the U.S. and Canada took the stage, hoping to win cash prizes and earn bragging rights in one of the top singing contests.
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