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Keith Warner und das Theater an der Wien beweisen mit Elegie für junge Liebende ein weiteres Mal ihre hervorragende Zusammenarbeit.

Eine Produktion von Le nozze di Figaro, in der sowohl Marcellina als auch Barbarina großartige Leistungen bieten, zeigt ein Ensemble vom Feinsten.

Zabou Breitman bringt den Glamour der Silberleinwand mit für die Inszenierung von Mozarts Entführung aus dem Serail der Pariser Oper, in der Anna Prohaskas Blondchen allen die Schau stiehlt.

Karita Mattila and Jane Archibald machen die Ariadne auf Naxos der Royal Opera ein Muss.

Leoncavallo's opera is a rare example of a tragic, verismo opera where not a soul dies... neither by natural causes nor foul play.  

Here was the much-loved three-act opera Rigoletto, yes, but chances are, it was one far beyond Verdi’s wildest dreams.

Ádám Fischer delivers a remarkable performance of Haydn's great oratorio.

Triste fin de saison à l'Opéra national de Montpellier où la double soirée lyrique Weill/Puccini n'a pas comblé les attentes. 

Jane Archibald and Ruxandra Donose provide a compelling prologue to Ariadne auf Naxos, while Karita Mattila's majestic performance lights up the opera seria second half.

Smetana wrote Prodaná nevěsta (“The Bartered Bride”) as a light Czech folk piece in a playful reply to critics who said that his music was too Wagnerian, or too German for that matter – something not compatible with the growing Czech national consciousness in the period he composed it (1863–66), even though he only showed mild interest in the Czech cause.

How to stage The Abduction from the Seraglio in Vienna, a city not exactly known for its sensitivity towards its Turkish minority? Mozart’s opera doesn’t, it should be said, contain nearly as much politically incorrect embarrassment as the rhetoric of some of Austria’s modern-day political parties, but the abusive boor Osmin and the Western women enslaved by his short-fused ganglord are images whi