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The Ukrainian director's “revisioning” of Beethoven's only opera plunges it into an incoherent underworld in Amsterdam.

Barrie Kosky brings his trio of Puccini productions to a close with another triptych: Il trittico in a triumphant staging. 

Angela Brower steals the crown in the final instalment of Jetske Mijnssen’s Donizetti trilogy with a voice of apparently limitless emotional range. 

When the director walks four weeks ahead of opening night, Dutch National Opera and Ballet hastily create a searing double bill of classical tragedy. 

Adela Zaharia is cast as a Violetta for whom the party never stops in this revival of Tatjana Gürbaca's busy staging at Dutch National Opera. 

After its Met Opera debut earlier in the year, Simon McBurney's popular staging returns to Amsterdam. 

Extraordinary performances from Kristina Mkhitaryan and Aigul Akhmetshina turn Donizetti's take on Schiller into an intense psychological portrait of power struggle.