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Mit 70 Jahren gibt der amerikanische Tenor Gregory Kunde ein großartiges Rollendebüt als Kapitän Vere, zusammen mit einem starken Ensemble aus Sängern, Chor und Orchester in Willy Deckers eindrucksvoller Inszenierung.

Cantantes estrella y una escenografía icónica, imprescindible para cualquier aficionado, para el final de temporada del Teatro Real

Música y escenografía se funden en un todo para presentar un embelesador El holandés errante en Les Arts.

Si la mise en scène de Willy Decker accuse son âge dans une production inégale, l'œuvre de Wagner bénéficie de l'incarnation parfaite de Ricarda Merbeth et de la direction inspirée d'Hannu Lintu.

Willy Decker does not try to make the structure of the plot any clearer, mainly concentrating on the deeper meaning of the work. The cast was excellent.

A terrific staging of Janáček's opera is successfully revived at the Teatro di San Carlo.

Willy Decker's enduring production gets smart treatment in a handsome revival.

Peter Grimes vuelve a los escenarios, magníficamente encarnado por Gregory Kunde en la clásica producción de Willy Decker.

With a plethora of theatre seats, stools and benches it was as if Willy Decker and Wolfgang Gussman had been elected ‘Chair-men of the bored”.

The third installment of Semperoper Dresden’s Ring des Nibelungen cycle ups the ante with an outstanding ensemble performance.

Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden orchestra are let down by sub-optimal singers in Willy Deckers chair-laden production of  Die Walküre. 

Wagner demands vocal resilience from the large cast of singers in Das Rheingold, but Willy Decker wants strong thigh muscles as well.

Marble and solitude: Willy Decker's view of La clemenza di Tito is revived with a strong cast at L'Opéra de Paris.

Willy Decker's production, presented in Zürich in 2014, is revived at the Hamburgische Staatsoper with most of the same cast

An exceptional musical performance was enhanced by a streamlined but ultimately moving staging in an evening of near perfection in Dresden.

In April, Peter Mattei and Anna Netrebko were starring together in Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera. Less than a month later and they are reunited in Paris in Willy Decker's staging.

About halfway through the second act of Verdi's La traviata at the opera's second Met performance of the season, soprano Sonya Yoncheva went from being a really good Violetta to being a great Violetta.

Beczała's "Pourquoi me réveiller" stops the show in Willy Decker's thoughtful Werther at the Liceu, expertly conducted by Alain Altinoglu.

Die tote Stadt at the Vienna State Opera features strong playing and singing but little drama.

Willy Decker's gloriously sung production of Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová in Oslo made for a uniquely powerful performance.

Willy Decker’s 2010 bleak, fascinating, controversial production of La traviata has returned to the Met with an entirely new cast.

Death in Venice makes its première in Madrid with a rational and symbolic production by Willy Decker. 

Zurich's The Turn of the Screw is a masterful staging of the Benjamin Britten's musical narrative of Henry James' ghost story. 

Seeing Zürich Opera’s new production of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria made me wonder why this is the least performed of Monteverdi's three surviving operas. 

Read our review of Willy Decker's production of Verdi's La Traviata in its 2012 broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.

Willy Decker’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, which originated at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1994 and was revived at London’s Royal Opera House in 2004 and 2011, has now reached Tokyo. The work opened the new season of the New National Theatre Tokyo, the capital’s main opera house, currently celebrating its 15th anniversary.

English classical music is often associated with the countryside, the landscape and its villages, and Britten's opera Peter Grimes is no exception.