TORONTO—There’s something about Wagner’s operas. It’s a feeling that’s hard to explain, keeping you on the edge of your seat, breathlessly hanging on to every note and word.
“There’s just something that gets inside and grabs on, and you just want to hear it more and more and follow the story over and over,” says Canadian soprano Ileana Montalbetti, who is currently performing in “Götterdämmerung”—the last opera in Wagner’s epic Ring cycle—with the Canadian Opera Company (COC).

Soprano Ileana Montalbetti Bo Huang