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Welcome to May’s Bachtrack Edition, where we put the spotlight on a selection of our reviews, stories and images from the past month.
Dreams in the mist: Romeo Castellucci directs a new Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala
© Monika Rittershaus | Teatro alla Scala
Lepage’s Bluebeard and Erwartung pairing remains compelling theatre
© Michael Cooper
Mira Nadon’s sparkling debut in Symphony in C with New York City Ballet
© Erin Baiano
Wretches like us: the LPO’s concert Wozzeck cuts to the quick
© Pete Woodhead
The Australian Ballet does Romeo and Juliet: precision over passion
© Daniel Boud
Yunchan Lim at Carnegie Hall: unmooring musical time
© Fadi Kheir
Peter Whelan and Carlos Ferreira ignite Brahms and Weber in Dublin
© Andres Poveda
Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival
© Pete Woodhead
Barbara Hannigan makes a powerful connection in La Voix humaine
© Chris Lee
Asmik Grigorian’s Tatyana strengthens the Met’s revival of Eugene Onegin
© Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera
Frauenliebe und -sterben: Kratzer’s triple bill at Staatsoper Hamburg
© Matthias Baus
© Monika Rittershaus | Teatro alla Scala
© Michael Cooper
© Erin Baiano
© Pete Woodhead
© Daniel Boud
© Fadi Kheir
© Andres Poveda
© Pete Woodhead
© Chris Lee
© Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera
© Matthias Baus
Composer Brett Dean, librettist Heather Betts, and mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean speak about new opera Of One Blood, and the complexities of family relations.
Photo of the month
A dazzling moment in Joseph Sissens’ solo in Wayne McGregor’s Untitled, 2023 is captured by photographer Andrej Uspenski at Covent Garden.
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