The pair met back in 2013 when they were competing in a singing competition in Verona, Italy. She won a prize and he did not.

Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over ...

Paul Plishka performs the role of the Grand Inquisitor in Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlo" during a rehearsal at the Salzburg Festival ... on an off day at the opera house in 2005.

FILE - Paul Plishka as the Grand Inquisitor, left, and Sergei Larin as Don Carlo, perform in the opera "Don Carlo" by Giuseppe Verdi during a rehearsal at the Salzburg Festival’s Grosses ...

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

Jenufa at the Royal Opera House review: symbolic, psychologically probing and more potent than ever - 4/5 This revival was Jakub Hrusa’s first production as Covent Garden’s music director designate – ...