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Frankfurt am Main

11. Mai 2022

Im Wald verborgener Träume: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Frankfurt

Von Alexandra Richter

Die Verachtung der Wirklichkeit: Drei Krenek-Kurzopern in Frankfurt

Von Alexandra Richter, 11. Oktober 2019

Ernst Kreneks Kurzopern kehren nach der Auszeichnung zur Wiederentdeckung des Jahres 2018 zurück auf die Bühne der Oper Frankfurt.

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Frankfurt am Main

11. Okt. 2019

Die Verachtung der Wirklichkeit: Drei Krenek-Kurzopern in Frankfurt

Von Alexandra Richter

Lethargisch, komisch, ironisch: Peter Eötvös' Tri Sestri an der Oper Frankfurt

Von Miriam Zeh, 9. September 2018

Eötvös' drei Melancholie-Schwestern führen das Frankfurter Publikum durch die todtraurigen und absurden Existenzformen des postmodernen menschlichen Daseins.

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Frankfurt am Main

9. Sept. 2018

Lethargisch, komisch, ironisch: Eötvös' Tri Sestri in Frankfurt

Von Miriam Zeh

Bergen

Seelisch zerrüttet: Stuart Skelton führt einen grandiosen Peter Grimes an

Von Mark Valencia, 30. Mai 2017

Dieser Peter Grimes war die Geschichte zweier Talente: der Dirigent und der Sänger.

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Bergen

30. Mai 2017

Ein grandioser Peter Grimes in Bergen

Von Mark Valencia

On the Rake: Strawinsky an der Oper Frankfurt

Von Matthew Rye, 31. März 2017

Eine überwiegend neubesetzte Wiederaufnahme von The Rake's Progress braucht eine Weile, um Feuer zu fangen, doch wenn sie Fahrt aufnimmt, ist das Ergebnis teuflisch gut.

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Frankfurt am Main

31. März 2017

On the Rake: Strawinsky an der Oper Frankfurt

Von Matthew Rye

Verdi's Falstaff in Frankfurt: Heimspiel für Željko Lučić

Von Stephan Eckel, 23. September 2016

Željko Lučić als Gast zu Haus: Wieder singt er eine hinreißende Partie an der Oper Frankfurt.

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Frankfurt am Main

23. Sept. 2016

Heimspiel für Željko Lučić in Frankfurter Falstaff

Von Stephan Eckel

Ginger Costa-Jackson (Carmen) and Russell Thomas (Don José) © Mihaela Bodlovic

Brutality and anarchy in the Royal Opera’s revival of Carmen

Von Dominic Lowe, 29. Oktober 2026

Ginger Costa-Jackson is no stranger to Carmen, and in her latest assumption of the role she brings a countercultural flair to the doomed gypsy.

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London

29. Okt. 2026

Brutality and anarchy in the Royal Opera’s revival of Carmen

Von Dominic Lowe

Allan Clayton (Peter Grimes) © RBO | Tristram Kenton

No harbour shelters peace: Peter Grimes drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Von Christopher Woodley, 5. Mai 2026

Allan Clayton and Sir Bryn Terfel lead a strong cast in a revival of Deborah Warner's dark staging of Britten's signature work at Covent Garden.

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London

5. Mai 2026

Peter Grimes drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Von Christopher Woodley

Ermonela Jaho (Violetta) © The Royal Opera 2026 | Pamela Raith

Ermonela Jaho returns in triumph to The Royal Opera’s Traviata

Von Mark Valencia, 8. Januar 2026

Richard Eyre’s 32-year-old production is rarely out of The Royal Opera’s repertoire for more than a few months at a time, but this particular revival proves very special.

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London

8. Jan. 2026

Ermonela Jaho returns in triumph to The Royal Opera’s Traviata

Von Mark Valencia

Decadence and decay: Asmik Grigorian and Antonio Pappano lead a sensational Salome

Von Mark Pullinger, 11. Juli 2025

Even locked behind a music stand, like a caged panther in a sleek black gown, Grigorian’s Salome bristles with dramatic energy in Barbican concert performance of Strauss’ “scherzo with a fatal conclusion”.

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London

11. Juli 2025

Decadence and decay: Asmik Grigorian leads a sensational Salome

Von Mark Pullinger

ENO gives Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots a worthy performance

Von Nick Boston, 15. Februar 2025

Musgrave's powerful depiction of a powerful woman at the mercy of male manipulation receives a strong staging from at ENO.

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London

15. Feb. 2025

ENO gives Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots a worthy performance

Von Nick Boston

Lausanne

Laurent Pelly signe un Songe de l’étoffe d’un rêve à Lausanne

Von Romain Daroles, 23. Dezember 2024

La mise en scène par Laurent Pelly vient réparer un manque : le chef-d’œuvre onirique et féérique de Britten n'avait encore jamais été donné dans l’opéra de la capitale vaudoise.

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Lausanne

23. Dez. 2024

Pelly signe un Songe de l’étoffe d’un rêve à Lausanne

Von Romain Daroles

Aida Garifullina (Violetta) and Ossian Huskinson (Marquis d'Obigny) © ROH | Camilla Greenwell

Aida Garifullina an exceptionally fine Violetta at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger, 7. September 2024

As Richard Eyre’s staging reaches its 30th anniversary, a new Violetta arrives on the Royal Opera block in what proves to be one of the best revivals in recent years.

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London

7. Sept. 2024

Aida Garifullina an exceptionally fine Violetta at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger

Boris Godounov au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées © Mirco Magliocca

Paris

Les grosses ficelles d'Olivier Py dans Boris Godounov au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Von Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 28. Februar 2024

Malgré une distribution de haut vol – dont la révélation Alexander Roslavets, stupéfiant dans le rôle-titre –, cette production de l'opéra de Moussorgski laisse sur sa faim.

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Paris

28. Feb. 2024

Les grosses ficelles d'Olivier Py dans Boris Godounov au TCE

Von Jean-Pierre Rousseau

Boris Godounov au Théâtre du Capitole © Mirco Magliocca

Toulouse

Avec Boris Godounov, la Russie d’Olivier Py envahit le Capitole

Von Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 29. November 2023

L’œuvre titanesque de Moussorgski était proposée dans une mise en scène d'Olivier Py qui tente l’actualisation avec plus ou moins de réussite. La distribution et la direction musicale ne basculent jamais dans la caricature.

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Toulouse

29. Nov. 2023

Avec Boris Godounov, la Russie d’Olivier Py envahit le Capitole

Von Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

Opera Holland Park Chorus © Craig Fuller

Lights, camera, distraction: Opera Holland Park stages B-movie Bohème

Von Stephen Pritchard, 19. Juli 2023

Natascha Metherell relocates the action to an Italian film studio of the 1950s, which looks great but brings problems.

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London

19. Juli 2023

Lights, camera, distraction: Opera Holland Park stages B-movie Bohème

Von Stephen Pritchard

Lyon

Avec Irrelohe, Franz Schreker revient hanter l'Opéra de Lyon

Von Irma Foletti, 19. März 2022

David Bösch monte une formidable nouvelle production d'Irrelohe de Franz Schreker, compositeur encore trop rarement joué. Sous la baguette habile de Bernhard Kontarsky, Ambur Braid se distingue dans le rôle d'Eva.

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Lyon

19. März 2022

Avec Irrelohe, Franz Schreker revient hanter l'Opéra de Lyon

Von Irma Foletti

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival closes in style with a terrific Ariadne auf Naxos

Von David Smythe, 25. August 2021

Memorable role debuts from Dorothea Röschmann, David Butt Philip and Catriona Morison make Ariadne auf Naxos with the RSNO and Lothar Koenigs a night to savour.

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Edinburgh

25. Aug. 2021

EIF closes in style with a terrific Ariadne auf Naxos

Von David Smythe

Toulouse

Une Elektra explosive pour clôturer la saison du Théâtre du Capitole

Von Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 4. Juli 2021

Avec son orchestre sur scène, son plateau ensanglanté et son excellente distribution, l'Elektra haute en couleurs de Michel Fau vient clôturer la saison amputée du Théâtre du Capitole.

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Toulouse

4. Juli 2021

Une Elektra explosive pour clôturer la saison du Capitole

Von Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

Toulouse

Le Capitole rouvre ses portes avec La Force du destin

Von Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 23. Mai 2021

À Toulouse, le Théâtre du Capitole accueille à nouveau du public (non sans quelques aménagements) depuis le 23 mai, avec une belle Force du destin de concert, emmenée par Catherine Hunold.

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Toulouse

23. Mai 2021

Le Capitole rouvre ses portes avec La Force du destin

Von Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

Madrid

Mártires y acosados: Peter Grimes en el Real

Von Juan José Freijo, 19. April 2021

La nueva producción de Peter Grimes se alza como la mejor propuesta de la temporada del Real con una magnífica dirección de Deborah Warner en la escena e Ivor Bolton en lo musical y una sobresaliente actuación vocal y dramática.

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Madrid

19. Apr. 2021

Mártires y acosados: Peter Grimes en el Real

Von Juan José Freijo

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Von Matthew Rye, 30. November 2019

A psychologically penetrating semi-staging of Britten’s Peter Grimes from leading soloists, the Bergen Philharmonic and its chief conductor Ed Gardner laid bare the opera’s music and drama.

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London

30. Nov. 2019

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Von Matthew Rye

Guilty secrets: Wolf-Ferrari entertains, Tchaikovsky bewitches at Opera Holland Park

Von David Karlin, 22. Juli 2019

Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna provides an airy bon-bouche to Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, brilliantly sung by Natalya Romaniw and David Butt Philip and conducted to fairy-tale perfection by Sian Edwards

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London

22. Juli 2019

Wolf-Ferrari entertains, Tchaikovsky bewitches at Holland Park

Von David Karlin

Singing animals, heroic lumberjacks, pure melody and riotous entertainment in ENO's Paul Bunyan

Von David Karlin, 9. Mai 2019

The American Dream hits Ally Pally in a vivacious performance of Britten's eclectic operetta, headlined by an ENO chorus who knock it out of the park.

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London

9. Mai 2019

Pure melody and riotous entertainment: ENO's Paul Bunyan

Von David Karlin

Indomitable: Billy Budd in Frankfurt

Von Matthew Rye, 25. Mai 2018

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.

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Frankfurt am Main

25. Mai 2018

Indomitable: Billy Budd in Frankfurt

Von Matthew Rye

A colourful, exuberant riot: Iolanthe at English National Opera

Von David Karlin, 13. Februar 2018

Cal McCrystal goes long on the ham and keeps the gags flowing in a visually stunning production that will delight G&S lovers.

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London

13. Feb. 2018

A colourful, exuberant riot: ENO's Iolanthe

Von David Karlin

Edinburgh

Edward Gardner and the Bergen Phil storm the Edinburgh Festival with a powerful Peter Grimes

Von David Smythe, 13. August 2017

Stuart Skelton’s visceral Peter Grimes is matched by a strong cast with thrilling playing and singing from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner.

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Edinburgh

13. Aug. 2017

A powerful Peter Grimes in Edinburgh

Von David Smythe

Miller's Rigoletto makes a flawed return to English National Opera

Von Dominic Lowe, 2. Februar 2017

Jonathan Miller's production remains a work of brilliance, but poor conducting amongst other things keeps this revival from getting off the ground.

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London

2. Feb. 2017

Miller's Rigoletto makes a flawed return to ENO

Von Dominic Lowe

Vocal pyrotechnics and Rossinian laughs: La Cenerentola at Opera Holland Park

Von Dominic Lowe, 14. Juli 2016

Opera Holland Park's traditionally staged Cenerentola has plenty of sparkle and a fine cast of talented singers.

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London

14. Juli 2016

Vocal pyrotechnics and Rossinian laughs

Von Dominic Lowe

Bradford on Avon

So foul and fair a day: Verdi's Macbeth at Iford

Von Charlotte Valori, 11. Juni 2016

Iford's stone cloister makes a suitably eerie setting for a fine traditional account of Verdi's Macbeth, notable for its powerful male leads, from Iford Festival Opera and the CHROMA Ensemble.

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Bradford on Avon

11. Juni 2016

So foul and fair a day: Verdi's Macbeth at Iford

Von Charlotte Valori

Shore’s Bartolo shines in a Barber as frothy as Figaro’s shaving foam at ENO

Von Mark Pullinger, 28. September 2015

A wittily staged, but variably sung twelfth revival of Jonathan Miller's production at the Coliseum.

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London

28. Sept. 2015

A Barber as frothy as Figaro’s shaving foam

Von Mark Pullinger

High Wycombe

Love's not Time's fool: Intermezzo at Garsington

Von David Karlin, 6. Juni 2015

At Garsington Opera, Richard Strauss' Intermezzo presents an utterly compelling picture of a mature marriage with its joys and trials; Mary Dunleavy brings it to life with a top class piece of acting.

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High Wycombe

6. Juni 2015

Love's not Time's fool: Intermezzo at Garsington

Von David Karlin

Jonathan Miller's La bohème returns to ENO

Von David Karlin, 29. Oktober 2014

ENO's revival of Jonathan Miller's 2009 production is musically solid, but falls short of the dramatic intensity achieved in previous years.

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London

29. Okt. 2014

Jonathan Miller's La bohème returns to ENO

Von David Karlin

"One that lov'd not wisely but too well": a visceral Otello at ENO

Von Mark Pullinger, 13. September 2014

“Beware, my Lord, of jealousy” warns Iago, planting the seed of doubt in Otello’s mind. Beware, too, the dangers of preconceptions. Keen anticipation of this new production of Verdi’s Otello was tempered by the prospect of David Alden as director.

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London

13. Sept. 2014

A visceral Otello at ENO

Von Mark Pullinger

Musical grit mars a pearl of a production

Von Mark Pullinger, 16. Juni 2014

It is a myth that pearls can be formed from grit and so it proved here, where a vastly underwhelming musical performance sullied a much improved production of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers.

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London

16. Juni 2014

Musical grit mars a pearl of a production

Von Mark Pullinger

Not for beginners: Christopher Alden's Rigoletto at ENO

Von David Karlin, 13. Februar 2014

Last night’s opening of Christopher Alden’s allusive, conceptual Rigoletto for ENO, a co-production with Canadian Opera Company, was a notable event for London opera. Musically, ENO have been on top of their game this season and last night was no exception.

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London

13. Feb. 2014

ENO: Rigoletto

Von David Karlin

Glasgow

Scottish Opera's sinister Venetian Don Giovanni suits the dark tale perfectly

Von David Smythe, 26. Oktober 2013

A year of theatre refurbishment leaves Scottish Opera with only three and half full productions this season, so the spotlight turned firmly onto this Don Giovanni from director Sir Thomas Allen, designer Simon Higlett and lighting designer Mark Jonathan.

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Glasgow

26. Okt. 2013

Scottish Opera: Don Giovanni

Von David Smythe

Beguiling Britten: GSMD's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Von Francesca Vella, 28. Februar 2012

Britten’s only Shakespeare opera was a last-minute commission to celebrate the opening of the refurbished Jubilee Hall at the 1960 Aldeburgh Festival. Despite the narrow timescale, Britten and his collaborator and partner Peter Pears notoriously strove to adhere to the sixteen-century dramatic text as closely as possible. Only a handful of Shakespeare’s original lines were substantially modified.

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London

28. Feb. 2012

Beguiling Britten: GSMD's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Von Francesca Vella

Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor

Von Verity Sancroft, 14. November 2011

Otto Nicolai’s very German take on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor was a big hit in the mid-19th century but has been infrequently performed since then, largely because Verdi’s version, Falstaff, completely eclipsed it.