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Amsterdam

8. Feb. 2026

Malin Byström brilliert bei Isolde-Debüt in Amsterdam

Von Phillip Richter

David Butt Philip (Florestan) und Malin Byström (Leonore) © Werner Kmetitsch

Fidelio-Neuinszenierung an der Wiener Staatsoper: Franz Welser-Möst rockt

Von Snapdragon, 19. Dezember 2025

Musikalisch begeistert vor allem Franz Welser-Möst im Orchestergraben; Nikolaus Habjan bringt seine Puppen.

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Wien

19. Dez. 2025

Fidelio-Neuinszenierung an der Wiener Staatsoper: Welser-Möst rockt

Von Snapdragon

Sängerkrieg als Theaterstück: Neuproduktion von Wagners Tannhäuser an der Wiener Staatsoper

Von Thomas Schacher, 25. Mai 2025

Lydia Steier zeigt einen Titelhelden, der sich nicht entscheiden kann, in welcher Welt er leben möchte. Und Philippe Jordan kostet die reiche Klangpalette der späten Wiener Fassung aus.

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Wien

25. Mai 2025

Sängerkrieg als Theaterstück: Tannhäuser an der Wiener Staatsoper

Von Thomas Schacher

Golda Schultz (Gräfin Almaviva) und Konstantin Krimmel (Figaro) © Geoffroy Schied

München

Koks und Nutten: Le nozze di Figaro an der Bayrischen Staatsoper

Von Phillip Richter, 19. Januar 2025

An der Bayerischen Staatsoper brilliert ein hochkarätiges Mozart-Ensemble in einem so enttäuschenden, wie trostlosem Regiekonzept.

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München

19. Jan. 2025

Koks und Nutten: Le nozze di Figaro an der Bayrischen Staatsoper

Von Phillip Richter

Schizophrenes Tatortdrama: Lohengrin an der Wiener Staatsoper

Von Norman Schwarze, 2. Mai 2024

Ein überragender Christian Thielemann sorgt am Pult für einen musikalisch außergewöhnlichen Lohengrin. Auf der Bühne wird eine Paralellwelt gezeichnet, die Traditionalisten nur bedingt gefallen wird.

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Wien

2. Mai 2024

Schizophrenes Tatortdrama: Lohengrin an der Wiener Staatsoper

Von Norman Schwarze

Minnie und die starken Männer: La fanciulla del West an der Wiener Staatsoper

Von Snapdragon, 10. Januar 2024

Carlo Rizzi leitet einen genussvollen Abend mit romantischen kleinen Gesten und großen Gefühlen.

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Wien

10. Jan. 2024

Minnie und die starken Männer: La fanciulla del West in Wien

Von Snapdragon

Eine neue Salome an der Wiener Staatsoper: orchestrale Exzellenz, vokale Virtuosität

Von George Jahn, 4. Februar 2023

Die Salome nach Cyril Teste ist schon im Original ein Psychodrama und führt uns tiefer in das, was die Protagonistin – oder ist sie eine tragische Heldin? – zu dem macht, was sie ist.

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Wien

4. Feb. 2023

Wiens neue Salome: orchestrale Exzellenz, vokale Virtuosität

Von George Jahn

Tosca mit Sicherheitsabstand in Stockholm

Von Isabella Steppan, 7. Mai 2021

Nicht szenisch, aber auch nicht wirklich konzertant und mit durchwachsenen gesanglichen Leistungen wurde Puccinis Tosca an der Royal Swedish Opera gegeben.

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Stockholm

7. Mai 2021

Tosca mit Sicherheitsabstand in Stockholm

Von Isabella Steppan

Malin Byström et Jonas Kaufmann au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées © Olivia Kahler

Paris

Le voyage hongrois de Jonas Kaufmann au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Von Romain Daroles, 20. April 2026

Malgré le choix étonnant de l'amplification des voix qui restera une énigme pendant toute la soirée, le programme révèle les charmes d'une musique rarement donnée avenue Montaigne.

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Paris

20. Apr. 2026

Le voyage hongrois de Jonas Kaufmann au TCE

Von Romain Daroles

Malin Byström and Bo Skovhus © Andrew Perry

Edinburgh

Malin Byström stars in a radiant Capriccio to close the Edinburgh International Festival

Von David Smythe, 25. August 2024

Capriccio proves a fitting end to the Philharmonia’s EIF residency, with Alexander Soddy conducting a fine cast headed by Swedish soprano Malin Byström.

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Edinburgh

25. Aug. 2024

Malin Byström stars in a radiant Capriccio to close the EIF

Von David Smythe

Madrid

Ermonela Jaho y Malin Byström deslumbran en el Teatro Real con sus mujeres sin nombre

Von Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 17. März 2024

Dos obras que reflejan las complejidades de la psique humana de manera magistral llevadas al escenario por Christof Loy, con las voces de Ermonela Jaho y Malin Byström.

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Madrid

17. März 2024

Ermonela Jaho y Malin Byström deslumbran con sus mujeres sin nombre

Von Jorge Baeza Stanicic

Christian Gerhaher (Wozzeck) © Monika Rittershaus

Aix-en-Provence

Musically peerless but battering: Wozzeck at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

Von David Karlin, 7. Juli 2023

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO give an orchestral performance to remember, with a fine singing cast, but Simon McBurney's staging dials the bleakness to maximum too early.

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Aix-en-Provence

7. Juli 2023

Musically peerless but battering: Wozzeck in Aix

Von David Karlin

Stylish, traditional Tosca revived at the Royal Opera House

Von Mark Valencia, 28. November 2022

In a face-off between Gabriele Viviani's Scarpia and Malin Byström’s Tosca in this solid revival of Jonathan Kent's 2006 production, there could only be one winner

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London

28. Nov. 2022

Stylish, traditional Tosca revived at the Royal Opera House

Von Mark Valencia

Malin Byström and Alexander Soddy lead superb Salome revival at the Royal Opera House

Von Roy Westbrook, 9. September 2022

Swedish soprano Malin Byström returns to Sir David McVicar's production at Covent Garden, where she is now probably unsurpassed in the role, vocally and histrionically.

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London

9. Sept. 2022

Byström and Soddy lead superb Salome revival at the ROH

Von Roy Westbrook

Edinburgh

Salome stoked to red heat by Byström, Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic in Edinburgh

Von David Smythe, 14. August 2022

Returning to the Edinburgh International Festival after their astonishing Peter Grimes, the Bergen Philharmonic and Edward Gardner bring another opera, Richard Strauss' murderous Salome.

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Edinburgh

14. Aug. 2022

Salome stoked to red heat by Byström and the Bergen Philharmonic

Von David Smythe

Amsterdam

Barrie Kosky's Tosca as opera noir in Amsterdam

Von Nicolas Nguyen, 12. April 2022

Barrie Kosky's psychological thriller approach to Tosca at Dutch National Opera benefits greatly from the strong performances of its three principals.

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Amsterdam

12. Apr. 2022

Barrie Kosky's Tosca as opera noir in Amsterdam

Von Nicolas Nguyen

Konwitschny’s controversial Don Carlos a must-see at the Wiener Staatsoper

Von Chanda VanderHart, 4. Oktober 2020

A five-hour operatic marathon as the full, five-act French version of Verdi's epic Don Carlos returns to the Staatsoper after a seven-year hiatus.

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Wien

4. Okt. 2020

Konwitschny’s controversial Don Carlos a must-see in Vienna

Von Chanda VanderHart

A persuasively dark Don Giovanni in lockdown, from Swedish Radio

Von David Karlin, 14. Juni 2020

Andrew Staples creates an austere, monochrome semi-staging that's strangely appropriate to the times; Peter Mattei and John Lundgren lead an excellent cast.

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Stockholm

14. Juni 2020

A persuasively dark Don Giovanni from Swedish Radio

Von David Karlin

Highway to Hell: Holten's production of Don Giovanni returns to Covent Garden

Von Dominic Lowe, 16. September 2019

Kasper Holten's psychological take on the louche lothario remains controversial, but in its third revival, Erwin Schrott's powerful assumption of the title role is a delight.

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London

16. Sept. 2019

Highway to Hell: Don Giovanni returns to Covent Garden

Von Dominic Lowe

Madrid

El teatro y su doble: Capriccio en el Real

Von Ramón del Buey Cañas, 27. Mai 2019

Esta Capriccio es moderna porque se mantiene escrupulosamente fiel a los códigos de los salones intelectuales del siglo XVIII. Y también es realista porque detecta con irreverente precisión y astuta elegancia el interrogante filosófico que atraviesa el testamento operístico straussiano y la época en que se inscribe.

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Madrid

27. Mai 2019

El teatro y su doble: Capriccio en el Real

Von Ramón del Buey Cañas

Prom 51: A rare visit to the world of Per Nørgård

Von Andrew Morris, 20. August 2018

The BBC Scottish Symphony and Thomas Dausgaard unite Wagner, Strauss and a 43-year-old symphony from a modern Danish master.

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London

20. Aug. 2018

Prom 51: A rare visit to the world of Per Nørgård

Von Andrew Morris

Deception reigns in Christof Loy’s production of Der Rosenkavalier in Stockholm

Von Laura Servidei, 26. Mai 2018

Malin Byström convinces as the Feldmarschallin with Adrian Angelico as a strong Octavian, under the baton of Alan Gilbert.

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Stockholm

26. Mai 2018

Deception reigns in Loy’s Der Rosenkavalier in Stockholm

Von Laura Servidei

Royal Swedish Opera salutes Malin Byström’s thrilling performance as Fedora

Von Laura Servidei, 10. März 2018

After her triumph at the Royal Opera House in London as Salome, Byström comes home to Sweden to great acclaim in Giordano’s opera.

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Stockholm

10. März 2018

Byström’s thrilling performance as Fedora

Von Laura Servidei

The Beauty is the Beast: Malin Byström sings a chilling Salome

Von David Karlin, 8. Januar 2018

Henrik Nánási balances the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House to perfection, setting the stage for a memorable title role performance from Byström and a powerful Jochanaan from Michael Volle.

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London

8. Jan. 2018

The Beauty is the Beast: Malin Byström sings a chilling Salome

Von David Karlin

Herheim’s lavish Vêpres siciliennes returns to Covent Garden in triumphant style

Von Mark Pullinger, 12. Oktober 2017

A mural depicting Etna erupting is the only hint of Sicily in Stefan Herheim’s opulent staging, returning to Covent Garden for the first time since the Royal Opera’s Verdi bicentenary celebrations in 2013.

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London

12. Okt. 2017

Herheim’s lavish Vêpres siciliennes returns

Von Mark Pullinger

Amsterdam

Beautiful role debut for Malin Byström in Amsterdam Salome

Von Jenny Camilleri, 9. Juni 2017

In an elegant new production by Ivo van Hove, Malin Byström portrays a graceful, erotic Salome and the RCO play with sensuous lyricism under Daniele Gatti.

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Amsterdam

9. Juni 2017

Beautiful role debut for Malin Byström in Amsterdam Salome

Von Jenny Camilleri

Annilese Miskimmon's intense production of Jenůfa at the Kungliga Operan in Stockholm

Von Laura Servidei, 18. März 2017

Annilese Miskimmon's production brings to life the sinister, stormy story of Janáček's masterpiece in an Irish setting.

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Stockholm

18. März 2017

An intense Jenůfa in Stockholm

Von Laura Servidei

Tchaikovsky on Twelfth Night rings in the New Year in Stockholm

Von Laura Servidei, 5. Januar 2017

Mika Eichenholz led the Kungliga Filharmonikerna and Malin Byström in the first concert of 2017 at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

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Stockholm

5. Jan. 2017

Tchaikovsky on Twelfth Night rings in the New Year

Von Laura Servidei

New York City

A direct and engaging Don Giovanni at the Met

Von Oliver Brett, 4. November 2016

Don Giovanni is an opera which has as its title character a man who is an unrepentant womaniser, who ultimately receives his just reward in one of the most famous scenes in opera where he is consumed into the fires of hell.

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New York City

4. Nov. 2016

A direct and engaging Don Giovanni at the Met

Von Oliver Brett

New York City

A winning cast sparks joy in Don Giovanni revival at the Met

Von Ako Imamura, 27. September 2016

Simon Keenlyside returned to the Met after absence and led a delightful cast of Don Giovanni at the Met.

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New York City

27. Sept. 2016

A winning cast sparks joy in Don Giovanni revival at the Met

Von Ako Imamura

San Francisco

SF Opera's Jenůfa glows with radiant performances

Von Donna Stoering, 14. Juni 2016

Remarkable performances from Karita Mattila and Malin Byström head this strong production of Janáček’s Jenůfa at San Francisco Opera.

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San Francisco

14. Juni 2016

SF Opera's Jenufa glows with radiant performances

Von Donna Stoering

Hitting the rocks: Damiano Michieletto's Guillaume Tell at Covent Garden

Von David Karlin, 29. Juni 2015

Sadly, Damiano Michieletto and Antonio Pappano's production is more likely to be remembered for its failings – the awful rape scene, its dullness, plus a list of annoying details too long to mention – than for its musical excellence. It’s worth seeing to get a feel of both.

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London

29. Juni 2015

Hitting the rocks: Michieletto's Guillaume Tell

Von David Karlin

Martin Kušej's Idomeneo cast as gripping political power struggle

Von Mark Pullinger, 3. November 2014

“Here be dragons!” warned seafaring maps of yore, denoting uncharted territories. Martin Kušej, undertaking his first Royal Opera exploration, excised the sea monster from his vision of Mozart’s Idomeneo.

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London

3. Nov. 2014

Martin Kušej's Idomeneo as political power struggle

Von Mark Pullinger

New York City

Otto Schenk's Arabella is dusted down at the Met

Von David Allen, 3. April 2014

Michael Volle stars as a complex Mandryka in the Met's birthday revival of Richard Strauss's Arabella.

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New York City

3. Apr. 2014

Arabella at The Met

Von David Allen

Aix-en-Provence

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence opens with new Figaro

Von Stephen Raskauskas, 5. Juli 2012

The 2012 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence began its four-week feast of opera and music with Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro—and could there be better a way? Nothing can beat the sublime company of Mozart, Da Ponte and Beaumarchais on a summer evening in the open-air Théâtre de l'Archevêché.

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Aix-en-Provence

5. Juli 2012

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence opens with new Figaro

Von Stephen Raskauskas

Miller's no-frills Mozart is back: Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House

Von Francesca Vella, 27. Januar 2012

The last opera of the Mozart/Da Ponte cycle – the second of the composer’s operas to be performed in this Mozart-dominated season at the Royal Opera House – Così fan tutte pivots on two pairs of young lovers whose affection is put to the test by an old ‘philosopher’, Don Alfonso. Women, the old man argues, are all the same: never constant in their love, never loyal to their men.

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London

27. Jan. 2012

Miller's no-frills Mozart is back: Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House

Von Francesca Vella

Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia bring William Tell to the Proms

Von Laura Kate Wilson, 16. Juli 2011

On Saturday night, Antonio Pappano and his Roman orchestra and chorus, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, brought us the first opera of the 2011 Proms- Gioachino Rossini's William Tell.