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SKUTR's daring direction and Václav Luks's early music expertise combine to bring new vitality to a Baroque classic. 

Fine vocal and musical performances can't overcome Sláva Daubnerová's staging which misses the mark.

Donizetti's frothy romantic comedy takes on fresh appeal in this faithful rendering at the State Opera.

Barbora Horáková's imaginative updating of The Marriage of Figaro sags under its own weight at the Estates Theatre, Prague.

Jakub Hrůša leads a musically thrilling but dramatically problematic From the House of the Dead and Glagolitic Mass at the 2022 Janáček Brno International Festival.

Lively singing saves Magdalena Švecová's listless production of Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Národní divadlo.

“Who's dead, you or the old man?” asks Leporello after Don Giovanni’s duel with the Commendatore. What if the answer was that they had both received fatal wounds?

A positive debut as stage director for soprano Stefania Bonfadelli in Verdi's early comic opera.

A suggestive opera based on Sàndor Màrai's novel, at the Festival della Valle d'Itria. 

The Festival della Valle d'Itria opened with a 20th century opera of some musical value, but of much more historical and philological interest for scholars.