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Das Opernhaus des Jahres präsentiert zwei Werke des Barockkomponisten Pergolesi.

Křeneks Der Diktator, Schwergewicht oder Die Ehre der Nation und Das geheime Königreich in der Oper Frankfurt zeigen die Traditionsgattung Oper von einer anderen Seite. Ungewöhnlich und erfrischend anders.

Als turbulenter Faschingsspaß ist die frühbarocke Oper L’Orontea 1656 uraufgeführt worden. An der Frankfurter Oper erlebte sie jetzt als moderner Operngag eine rasante Neuinterpretation.

Miller's production, running since 1987, is starting to show its ago, but an excellent performance from Anna Devin keeps English National Opera's latest revival moving.

English National Opera opens its new season with a revival of David Alden's masterly production. 

Martyn Brabbins conducts an excellent ENO orchestra and consistently good ensemble cast as Richard Jones delivers a wealth of narrative detail to introduce Wagner's Ring.

Die Verurteilung des Lukullus, Paul Dessau and Bertolt Brecht's political satire about a Roman general judged for his deeds after death, has lost none of its relevance in Staatsoper Stuttgart's new production. 

It’s a small miracle that the production has been recreated so well in such a short time frame.

A classy and charming adventure through Gilbert & Sullivan with the OAE and John Wilson .

WNO make a compelling case for Prokofiev's gargantuan War and Peace.

Oper Frankfurt's revival of Richard Jones's production of Billy Budd with a homegrown cast is a devastating combination of powerful music and searing drama.

David Pountney's House of the Dead makes for high entertainment at Welsh National Opera.

Welsh National Opera’s new season commemorating the centenary of the 1917 Revolution with three Russian-themed works opens with both a bang and a whimper with this trenchant revival.

Excellent singing, dramatic sets and jolly music make this a rewarding revival of a long-forgotten opera, Herculanum by David. 

Frankfurt Opera's 2012 production of Götterdämmerung with its emphasis on the contemporary human issues was a successful conclusion of the revived Ring.

Weaknesses in the staging did little to dim the musical pleasure of hearing Sir Mark Elder conduct Weber's masterpiece with OAE forces and an impressvee cast

Poor intelligibility and lack of pace in the music or acting make L'Étoile into a disappointingly flat evening.

Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) is now principally remembered by the generations of grown-up schoolchildren who sang his many songs for educational use, and more recently by church choirs and congregations for his religious music.