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Frankfurt feiert die Erstaufführung von Martin Crimps und George Benjamins Oper Written on Skin, die bereits ein moderner Klassiker ist und zurecht zu den beliebtesten Opern des 21. Jahrhunderts gehört.

Ted Huffmans Neuproduktion präsentiert ganz minimalistisch eine Zauberflöte zwischen Traum und Altersflucht.

Poulencs bekannteste Oper wird zum ersten Mal an der Oper Frankfurt aufgeführt.

Brigitte Fassbaender inszeniert im Bockenheimer Depot Brittens erste, lange vergessene Oper als klug unterhaltende Satire mit zielsicheren Pointen, hochmotiviertem Ensemble und einem Orchester unter erschwerten Bedingungen.

In dieser minimalistischen Produktion des Figaro stehen Singen und Spielen im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit. Eine äußerst talentierte Besetzung trägt die Vorstellung mit wundervollem Gesang und ansprechender Komik.

Laurence Cummings and John Caird’s second Garsington exploration of the operas of Monteverdi brims with wonderfully playing and singing in an attractive setting.

Impeccable ensemble work in Dawn M Simmons' first foray into opera. 

Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra revive Mascagni's Iris in a fully staged version in Frank Gehry's architecturally stunning Richard B Fisher Center at Bard College.

Mozart himself might have pulled a few weeds from this early opera. Lovely voices and sprightly playing can't overcome an overgrown plot in Santa Fe. 

The two leads in the brand-new cast of the Met’s three year old production of Massenet’s Manon were unbeatable. 

A revival of Chris Alexander's comedy-slanted take on Don Giovanni tames Mozart's subversive opera in Seattle's season opener.

Amanda Majeski and Joyce DiDonato are exceptional as Vitellia and Sesto in David McVicar's production of La clemenza di Tito at the Lyric Opera.

Wagner famously idealized the concept of the “Gesamtkunstwerk”, a total work of art that incorporates many artistic media into a single piece. He would have appreciated Seattle Opera’s production of Götterdämmerung.

Some Ring cycles are based on ideological concepts; Seattle Opera’s current Ring cycle is based on a place. That place is the Pacific Northwest of the United States, home to such extraordinary natural beauty that stage director Stephen Wadsworth has deemed it fit for the gods.

“Love conquers all.” Too often this phrase has been repeated, yet too true this statement has proven. Rather than just being a passionate emotion in which desires of the world and flesh prevail, true love is a genuine feeling which trials or extreme evil cannot break, even in the most difficult of circumstances.