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Zürich

2. März 2025

Familienzwist im Hause Claudios: Händels Agrippina am Opernhaus Zürich

Von Thomas Schacher

Charles Castronovo (Riccardo), George Petean (Renato) und Katharina Konradi (Oscar) © Herwig Prammer

Zürich

Primat der Musik: Verdis Un ballo in maschera am Opernhaus Zürich

Von Thomas Schacher, 8. Dezember 2024

Gianandrea Noseda, ein leidenschaftlicher Verdi-Kenner, bringt die unterschiedlichen musikalischen Sphären des Stücks brillant zum Klingen. Die Regisseurin Adele Thomas findet für den schicksalhaften Gang der Handlung ein schlüssiges Symbol.

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Zürich

8. Dez. 2024

Primat der Musik: Verdis Un ballo in maschera am Opernhaus Zürich

Von Thomas Schacher

Zürich

Die Braut ist ein Mann: Rameaus Ballettkomödie Platée am Opernhaus Zürich

Von Thomas Schacher, 10. Dezember 2023

Die Dirigentin Emmanuelle Haïm und die Regisseurin Jetske Mijnssen ziehen am gleichen Strick und lassen Rameaus Platée sowohl als musikalische als auch theatralische Komödie erscheinen.

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Zürich

10. Dez. 2023

Die Braut ist ein Mann: Rameaus Ballettkomödie Platée in Zürich

Von Thomas Schacher

Veena Akama-Makia (Clare) and Jacquelyn Stucker (Gwen) © RBO | Marc Brenner

4.48 Psychosis: Philip Venables’ visceral operatic expression of Sarah Kane’s final work revived

Von Nick Boston, 25. Oktober 2026

A strong cast led by Jacquelyn Stucker revive Philip Venables’ convincing operatic take on playwright Sarah Kane's final testament.

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London

25. Okt. 2026

Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis revived by The Royal Opera

Von Nick Boston

Edinburgh

Zurich Opera’s brooding Ballo in maschera at the Edinburgh International Festival

Von David Smythe, 26. August 2026

Gianandrea Noseda conducts his Zurich Opera forces as Adele Thomas' 2024 production arrives in Edinburgh with a cast led by Stephen Costello and Elena Stikhina.

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Edinburgh

26. Aug. 2026

Zurich Opera’s brooding Ballo in maschera comes to Edinburgh

Von David Smythe

George Petean (Simon Boccanegra) and Georg Zeppenfeld (Jacopo Fiesco) © Dutch National Opera | Ben van Duin

Amsterdam

Jetske Mijnssen’s dazzling Simon Boccanegra a coup for Dutch National season finale

Von Eleanor Knight, 4. Juni 2026

Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

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Amsterdam

4. Juni 2026

Jetske Mijnssen’s Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

Von Eleanor Knight

Emilia Blossom Ostroumoff (Flora) and Phoenix Matthews (Miles) © RBO | Mihaela Bodlovic

Darkness and denial: The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera House

Von Eleanor Knight, 26. März 2026

Natalie Abrahami’s mesmerising new production of Britten’s ghostly tale of sexual abuse is very dark indeed.

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London

26. März 2026

The Turn of the Screw at RBO Linbury: Darkness and denial

Von Eleanor Knight

Prague

Parsifal reconsidered: A provocative improvisation in Prague

Von Frank Kuznik, 26. März 2026

Timo Riihonen and Ester Pavlů stand out in a strong cast which carries Andreas Homoki's revised version of Wagner's final opera.

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Prague

26. März 2026

Parsifal reconsidered: A provocative improvisation in Prague

Von Frank Kuznik

Aix-en-Provence

La Calisto dans le boudoir de la réussite au Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

Von Romain Daroles, 7. Juli 2025

La mise en scène de Jetske Mijnssen déçoit, au contraire de la réalisation musicale proposée par une belle distribution réunie sous la direction intelligente de Sébastien Daucé.

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Aix-en-Provence

7. Juli 2025

La Calisto dans le boudoir de la réussite au Festival d'Aix

Von Romain Daroles

Glyndebourne

Joélle Harvey is outstanding in Glyndebourne's incendiary Semele

Von Roy Westbrook, 23. Juli 2023

Adele Thomas makes a good case for Semele's operatic credentials in her production which makes effective nods towards Baroque opera’s devotion to spectacle.

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Glyndebourne

23. Juli 2023

Joélle Harvey is outstanding in Glyndebourne's incendiary Semele

Von Roy Westbrook

Robert Murray (Mitridate) © Craig Fuller

High Wycombe

Fine cast shines in Garsington's new Mitridate, where the walls close in on warring royalty

Von Stephen Pritchard, 1. Juni 2023

Robert Murray excels as the eponymous king in the opera seria that cemented the 14-year old Mozart’s position as the next big thing.

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High Wycombe

1. Juni 2023

Fine cast shines in Garsington's new Mitridate

Von Stephen Pritchard

Roland Wood (Gianni Schicchi) and ensemble in Gianni Schicchi © James Glossop

Glasgow

Sir David McVicar's new Trittico a triumph for Scottish Opera

Von David Smythe, 11. März 2023

Scottish Opera’s 60th birthday present proves a triumph, with outstanding singing from Karen Cargill, Sunyoung Seo, Viktor Antipenko and Roland Wood.

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Glasgow

11. März 2023

Sir David McVicar's new Trittico a triumph for Scottish Opera

Von David Smythe

In the Realms of Sorrow: London Handel Festival presents cantatas in the round

Von Mark Valencia, 2. März 2023

Director Adele Thomas can do no wrong, sustaining her extraordinary run of fizz with this unlikely concatenation of four Handel cantatas at Stone Nest.

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London

2. März 2023

In the Realms of Sorrow: Handel cantatas in the round

Von Mark Valencia

Tim Albery's new Alcina for Opera North lacks magic in Leeds

Von Mark Valencia, 5. Februar 2022

Alcina also disappoints as a showcase for sustainable opera, despite that being Opera North’s pledge for this production.

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Leeds

5. Feb. 2022

Tim Albery's new Alcina for Opera North lacks magic in Leeds

Von Mark Valencia

Mulhouse

Stiffelio à l'Opéra national du Rhin : un chef-d'œuvre rendu à la scène

Von Jean Landras, 9. November 2021

L'opéra méconnu de Verdi bénéficie d'une belle direction musicale, d'une mise en scène parfaitement lisible et d'une distribution convaincante.

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Mulhouse

9. Nov. 2021

Stiffelio à l'Opéra du Rhin : un chef-d'œuvre rendu à la scène

Von Jean Landras

Berenice at the Linbury: sung à la Handel, acted à la Gilbert and Sullivan

Von David Karlin, 27. März 2019

Visual eye candy, excellent singing and superb Handelian playing by Laurence Cummings and the London Handel Orchestra are marred by poor diction and limited acting expressivity.

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London

27. März 2019

Berenice at the Linbury: Handel meets Gilbert and Sullivan

Von David Karlin

New York City

Philip Venables sets free the music in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 11. Januar 2019

Venables conceived a wealth of acoustic and visual components that constantly overlap and interact.

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New York City

11. Jan. 2019

Venables sets free the music in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis

Von Edward Sava-Segal

The futility of war: Opera North gives Kevin Puts’ Silent Night its UK première

Von Richard Wilcocks, 30. November 2018

Opera North's triumphant UK première production of Silent Night by Kevin Puts is directed at Leeds Town Hall by Tim Albery and conducted by Nicholas Kok.

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Leeds

30. Nov. 2018

Kevin Puts’ Silent Night given its UK première

Von Richard Wilcocks

Murder on the dance floor: an underwhelming Ballo in maschera from Opera North

Von Mark Pullinger, 3. Februar 2018

If you had received an invitation to a masked ball at which there turned out to be no masks and no dancing, it's understandable you'd feel disappointed.

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Leeds

3. Feb. 2018

Murder on the dance floor: an underwhelming Ballo

Von Mark Pullinger

Destiny and South Sea escapes: Osud and Trouble in Tahiti from Opera North

Von Richard Wilcocks, 11. Oktober 2017

Two thematically linked, but contrasting short operas are the final component of Opera North's Little Greats season at the Leeds Grand Theatre.

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Leeds

11. Okt. 2017

Destiny and South Sea escapes from Opera North

Von Richard Wilcocks

High Wycombe

A stern Father's Day treat: Mozart Idomeneo at Garsington

Von Charlotte Valori, 19. Juni 2016

Mozart's messy monster of an opera gets a brutalist tidy-up at Garsington, but the determinedly straightforward reading only makes this work's innate problems more obvious.

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High Wycombe

19. Juni 2016

A stern Father's Day treat: Mozart Idomeneo at Garsington

Von Charlotte Valori

Powerful and assured: 4.48 Psychosis at the Lyric Hammersmith

Von Ian Mikyska, 24. Mai 2016

Philip Venables' 4.48 Psychosis is the first musical adaptation of the eponymous play by Sarah Kane, which is the culmination of a three-year programme run jointly by the Royal Opera and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

London

24. Mai 2016

Powerful and assured: 4.48 Psychosis

Von Ian Mikyska

Opera North blends the beautiful with the cynical in The Coronation of Poppea

Von Richard Wilcocks, 4. Oktober 2014

Opera North's static production of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea directed by Tim Albery takes place in a murderous psychopath’s private cellar.

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