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Amsterdam

25 Jun 2018

Lessons in Love and Violence für den politischen Alltag

Von Michael Klier

Aušrinė Stundytė (Emilia Marty) and Sean Panikkar (Albert Gregor) © The Royal Opera | Camilla Greenwell

The glory and the grind: The Royal Opera stages its first Makropulos Case

Von Mark Valencia, 04 November 2025

Katie Mitchell wheels out her tired old tropes in The Makropulos Case, redeemed by its musical performances.

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London

04 Nov 2025

The Royal Opera stages its first Makropulos Case

Von Mark Valencia

Madrid

Acre sensación tras la brillante producción de Theodora en el Teatro Real

Von David Santana Cañas, 11 November 2024

La comprensión errónea del oratorio Theodora enturbia una, por lo demás, excelente producción de Katie Mitchell.

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Madrid

11 Nov 2024

Acre sensación tras la brillante producción de Theodora

Von David Santana Cañas

Reprise de la Mélisande seule et bafouée de Katie Mitchell au Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

Von Romain Daroles, 09 Juli 2024

Créée en 2016, la mise en scène de l'opéra de Debussy par Katie Mitchell a fait l'objet de plusieurs adaptations qui apportent cependant leur lot d'interrogations et de doutes.

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Aix-en-Provence

09 Jul 2024

Reprise de la Mélisande seule et bafouée de Katie Mitchell à Aix

Von Romain Daroles

Nadine Sierra (Lucia) and Rachael Lloyd (Alisa) © ROH | Camilla Greenwell

Nadine Sierra leads a musically formidable Lucia di Lammermoor revival at the ROH

Von Mark Valencia, 19 April 2024

Katie Mitchell's provocative staging is revived to great effect, elevated by glorious music-making led by Nadine Sierra's sensational Lucia.

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London

19 Apr 2024

Nadine Sierra leads a musically formidable Lucia di Lammermoor

Von Mark Valencia

Katie Mitchell sitúa la historia de Jenůfa en una fábrica de harina © Miguel Lorenzo y Mikel Ponte | Les Arts

Valencia

Jenůfa en Les Arts: refinamiento orquestal y crudeza en el drama

Von Daniel Martínez Babiloni, 19 Januar 2023

La notable ópera de Janáček cobra vida en un entorno industrial ideado por Katie Mitchell, mientras Gustavo Gimeno dirige meticulosamente desde el foso la Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.

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Valencia

19 Jan 2023

Jenůfa en Les Arts: refinamiento orquestal y crudeza en el drama

Von Daniel Martínez Babiloni

272 years on, Handel's Theodora comes home to Covent Garden

Von David Karlin, 31 Januar 2022

Superb singing from Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Józef Orliński lights up a curate's egg staging from Katie Mitchell.

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London

31 Jan 2022

272 years on, Handel's Theodora comes home to Covent Garden

Von David Karlin

Barcelona

Ariadne auf Naxos: sátira inaugural para la temporada del Liceu

Von Maria Sánchez, 22 September 2021

La obra de Strauss rompe con la tradición liceísta de apertura de programa con ballet y apuesta por una crítica ácida al mundo del espectáculo.

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Barcelona

22 Sep 2021

Ariadne auf Naxos: sátira inaugural para la temporada del Liceu

Von Maria Sánchez

Barcelona

La condición humana en Lessons in Love and Violence del Liceu

Von Maria Sánchez, 26 Februar 2021

Gran despliegue orquestal para el estreno de la última obra de George Benjamin, quien evoca las maniobras del poder y el amor con una partitura reflexiva e intimista.

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Barcelona

26 Feb 2021

La condición humana en Lessons in Love and Violence del Liceu

Von Maria Sánchez

Royal Opera's A New Dark Age is a powerful cantata for our time

Von Jenny Camilleri, 24 Oktober 2020

The Royal Opera House responds to current global turmoil with a double bill by four women composers. Baritone Peter Brathwaite delivers a tour de force in The Knife of Dawn and A New Dark Age is a powerful emotional journey.

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London

24 Okt 2020

Royal Opera's A New Dark Age is a powerful cantata for our time

Von Jenny Camilleri

Less than the sum of its parts: Zauberland at the Linbury

Von David Karlin, 15 Oktober 2019

Fine performances by Julia Bullock and Cédric Tiberghien can't make up for the confusion of a fragmented, allusive narrative.

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London

15 Okt 2019

Less than the sum of its parts: Zauberland at the Linbury

Von David Karlin

Paris

L'Ariane à Naxos de Katie Mitchell : lumières tamisées au TCE

Von Apolline Gouzi, 21 März 2019

Reprise mitigée de l'opéra de Richard Strauss au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées : Olga Pudova, Camilla Nylund et Kate Lindsey tiennent le haut du pavé ; Katie Mitchell échoue à divertir.

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Paris

21 Mär 2019

L'Ariane à Naxos de Katie Mitchell : lumières tamisées au TCE

Von Apolline Gouzi

Amsterdam

“Soap opera at its best”: Katie Mitchell's Jenůfa at Dutch National Opera

Von Nicolas Nguyen, 06 Oktober 2018

Katie Mitchell's second production of Jenůfa is a straightforward, effective reading of the libretto well supported by excellent singing actors.

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Amsterdam

06 Okt 2018

“Soap opera at its best”: Katie Mitchell's Jenůfa

Von Nicolas Nguyen

Rupert Charlesworth (Dancing Master), Sabine Devieilhe (Zerbinetta) and troupe © Pascal Victor / Artcompress

Blissful soprano singing marooned in corporate-land: Ariadne in Aix

Von David Karlin, 04 Juli 2018

Lise Davidsen and Sabine Devieilhe produce soprano heaven in their contrasting vocal styles. Katie Mitchell’s staging feels disappointingly familiar.

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Aix-en-Provence

04 Jul 2018

Blissful soprano singing: Ariadne in Aix

Von David Karlin

Lessons in Love and Violence: icy beauty and dramatic tension

Von David Karlin, 10 Mai 2018

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's second full scale opera is a refinement of the craft showed in Written on Skin – but the lessons are less in love and violince than in power, tension and beauty of the score.

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London

10 Mai 2018

Lessons in Love and Violence: ice and drama

Von David Karlin

A devastating revival of Katie Mitchell's Lucia di Lammermoor

Von Dominic Lowe, 30 Oktober 2017

Issues that cropped up in the first run of Mitchell's production have been ironed out. In the hands of a strong cast, a chilling interpretation of Donizetti's masterpiece.

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London

30 Okt 2017

Devastating Lucia revival at Covent Garden

Von Dominic Lowe

Paris

Miranda à l’Opéra Comique : une confrontation prenante et radicale

Von Jean-Marc Piriou, 27 September 2017

Qu’on adhère ou non au propos de Katie Mitchell, on ne sort pas indemne de ce spectacle qui donne à entendre des pages sublimes, mais sort délibérément le spectateur de sa zone de confort.

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Paris

27 Sep 2017

Miranda à l’Opéra Comique : une confrontation prenante et radicale

Von Jean-Marc Piriou

West Horsley

Natalya Romaniw leads an emotionally gripping Jenůfa for Grange Park Opera

Von Dominic Lowe, 11 Juni 2017

Grange Park Opera scored a direct hit with a fine production of Janáček's masterpiece, led by a superb performances from Natalya Romaniw and Susan Bullock as Jenůfa and the Kostelnička.

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West Horsley

11 Jun 2017

An emotionally gripping Jenůfa for Grange Park Opera

Von Dominic Lowe

A grisly love triangle: Written on Skin returns to Covent Garden

Von David Karlin, 13 Januar 2017

The Royal Opera's first revival of George Benjamin's medieval shocker is characterised by stellar singing performances, notably from Barbara Hannigan and Iestyn Davies.

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London

13 Jan 2017

A grisly love triangle: Written on Skin

Von David Karlin

Inquiétante étrangeté : l’onirique Pelléas et Mélisande de Katie Mitchell au Festival d'Aix

Von Suzanne Lay-Canessa, 16 Juli 2016

Surréaliste, psychanalytique, ce Pélléas et Mélisande l’est donc assurément. Mais c’est peut-être sa naïveté, sa tendresse presque enfantine, qui l’emporte.

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Aix-en-Provence

16 Jul 2016

L’onirique Pélléas et Mélisande de Katie Mitchell au Festival d'Aix

Von Suzanne Lay-Canessa

Returning to the crime scene: fresh blood improves Royal Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor

Von Mark Pullinger, 11 Mai 2016

A new cast arrives for Katie Mitchell's gothic Lucia di Lammermoor – and, despite caveats about the staging, deliver some excellent performances.

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London

11 Mai 2016

Returning to the crime scene: Royal Opera's Lucia

Von Mark Pullinger

Flawed and floored: Katie Mitchell delivers a powerful Lucia at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger, 07 April 2016

“Prepare to be shocked!” was the warning issued before this new Lucia di Lammermoor from Katie Mitchell at the Royal Opera House. Shocking? Yes, but in a good way.

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London

07 Apr 2016

Flawed and floored: a powerful Lucia at the ROH

Von Mark Pullinger

New York City

Written on Skin at Mostly Mozart Festival: a primeval experience

Von Robert Levine, 11 August 2015

First seen at the innovative, fearless Aix-en-Provence festival three summers ago, George Benjamin’s riveting, grisly Written on Skin has arrived in New York.

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New York City

11 Aug 2015

Written on Skin: a primeval experience

Von Robert Levine

Alcina: A bewitching start to the Aix-en-Provence Festival

Von Mark Valencia, 02 Juli 2015

The 67th Aix Festival got off to a hot, heady start with Katie Mitchell's witty and ingenious staging of Handel's 1735 sorcery opera Alcina.

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Aix-en-Provence

02 Jul 2015

Alcina: A bewitching start to the Aix-en-Provence Festival

Von Mark Valencia

Luxembourg

The House Taken Over in Luxembourg: Echoes of Cortázar in Vasco Mendonca's new opera

Von Fernando Remiro, 06 Februar 2014

Portugese composer Vasco Mendonça presents in Luxembourg his new opera, based on the masterly tale by Julio Cortázar.

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Luxembourg

06 Feb 2014

Grand Théâtre: The House Taken Over

Von Fernando Remiro

New opera, ancient tales: George Benjamin's Written on skin at the Royal Opera

Von David Karlin, 08 März 2013

21st century opera is a broad church. There aren’t many of us, I suppose, who are intimately familiar with the biographical accounts of the lives of 13th century troubadours, popular at the time in Spain and south west France. But Martin Crimp and George Benjamin, librettist and composer of Written on skin, aren’t exactly run of the mill people.

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London

08 Mär 2013

New opera, ancient tales: George Benjamin's Written on skin at the Royal Opera

Von David Karlin

Oxford

Welsh National Opera at the New Theatre, Oxford: Handel's Jephtha

Von Julia Savage, 23 Oktober 2012

Handel’s Jephtha is an oratorio, rather than an opera. However, the story is one of high drama and emotion, and thus the work lends itself easily to operatic adaptation.

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Oxford

23 Okt 2012

Welsh National Opera at the New Theatre, Oxford: Handel's Jephtha

Von Julia Savage

ENO's Idomeneo: go to hear it, if not to see it

Von David Karlin, 18 Juni 2010

For the third of their major operas this season, the English National Opera chose Mozart's Idomeneo, one of Mozart's earlier masterpieces telling the story of the Cretan King Idomeneus's homecoming after the Trojan War.