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Welcome to February’s Bachtrack Edition, where we put the spotlight on a selection of our reviews, stories and images from the past month.
Between ecstasy and abyss: Korngold’s Violanta at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
© Marcus Lieberenz
Sir Bryn Terfel’s craggy Boris Godunov returns to Covent Garden
© The Royal Opera | Mihaela Bodlovic
Sebastian Fagerlund’s interpretation of The Morning Star dawns over Helsinki
© Ilkka Saastamoinen
Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Linbury: exhilarating in new and legacy works
© Ron Thiele
Benvenuto Cellini: Strassberger loses the plot, but La Monnaie makes beautiful music
© Simon Van Rompay
Myth, desire and the dangerous allure of fantasy: Semele at Dutch National Opera
© Bart Grietens
Ksenija Sidorova mesmerises Liverpool with Dobrinka Tabakova’s Accordion Concerto
© Gareth Jones
Dreamt identities: Último helecho at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
© Thaïs Breton
An implacable Werther at the Opéra-Comique from Raphaël Pichon and Ted Huffman
© Jean-Louis Fernandez
Rattle and Kopatchinskaja sell a travel package to Hungary and Spain
© LSO | Mark Allan
Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works for The Royal Ballet: reaching poetic depths
© 2026 Johan Persson
© Marcus Lieberenz
© The Royal Opera | Mihaela Bodlovic
© Ilkka Saastamoinen
© Ron Thiele
© Simon Van Rompay
© Bart Grietens
© Gareth Jones
© Thaïs Breton
© Jean-Louis Fernandez
© LSO | Mark Allan
© 2026 Johan Persson
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Photo of the month
Photographer Paul Marc Mitchell captures exquisite chiaroscuro in Bill Barclay’s Death of Gesualdo at London’s St Martin in the Fields.
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