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Salzburg

8. Aug. 2025

Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt: Drei Schwestern von Eötvös in Salzburg

Von Thomas Schacher

Stuttgart

Woher – Wohin? NEW/WORKS am Stuttgarter Ballett

Von Rainer Zerbst, 19. Juni 2021

Das Stuttgarter Ballett zeigt mit NEW/WORKS einen beeindruckenden Abend neuer Werke.

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Stuttgart

19. Juni 2021

Woher – Wohin? NEW/WORKS am Stuttgarter Ballett

Von Rainer Zerbst

Berlin

Völlig eingetaucht: Spucks düsterer Holländer wirft an der Deutschen Oper den Anker aus

Von Zenaida des Aubris, 7. Mai 2017

Eriks Hoffnung auf eine glückliche Liebesgeschichte in Christian Spucks Neuproduktion von Der fliegende Holländer an der Deutschen Oper Berlin.

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Berlin

7. Mai 2017

Völlig eingetaucht: Spucks düsterer Holländer in Berlin

Von Zenaida des Aubris

Sabine Devieilhe dans Lucie de Lammermoor à l'Opéra-Comique © Herwig Prammer

Paris

La Lucie de Lammermoor superlative de Sabine Devieilhe à l'Opéra-Comique

Von Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 30. April 2026

Présentée pour la première fois à Paris depuis 2002, la version française de l'opéra de Donizetti bénéficie d'une exceptionnelle Sabine Devieilhe dans le rôle-titre. Le point noir est la mise en scène d'Evgeny Titov.

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Paris

30. Apr. 2026

La Lucie superlative de Sabine Devieilhe à l'Opéra-Comique

Von Jean-Pierre Rousseau

Stephen Costello (Roméo) and Kseniia Proshina (Juliette) © Michael Cooper

Toronto

Shakespeare in New York: Canadian Opera Company again opens season with Gounod

Von John Gilks, 27. September 2025

Amy Lane’s production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the COC is eye-catching and enjoyable but doesn’t offer the same level of insight as her Faust last season.

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Toronto

27. Sept. 2025

Canadian Opera Company opens season with Roméo et Juliette

Von John Gilks

Kyle Ketelsen (Méphistophélès) and Long Long (Faust) © Michael Cooper

Toronto

Scattered borrowings fail to cohere in Canadian Opera Company's new Faust

Von Gianmarco Segato, 11. Oktober 2024

Amy Lane's scattered borrowings from Tim Burton to Stanley Kubrick fail to cohere in the Canadian Opera Company's new Faust.

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Toronto

11. Okt. 2024

Scattered borrowings fail to cohere in COC's new Faust

Von Gianmarco Segato

Mark Le Brocq (Siegmund) © Matthew WIlliams-Ellis

An enthralling Walküre at Longborough Opera Festival

Von David Karlin, 18. Juni 2024

Who wouldn't relish the chance of seeing a Ring cycle at close quarters? Longborough's Die Walküre isn't perfect, but it consistently delivers on the story and on character interpretation.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

18. Juni 2024

An enthralling Walküre at Longborough Opera Festival

Von David Karlin

Weronika Frodyma as Emma Bovary and Alexandre Cagnat as Leon in Christian Spuck's Bovary © Serghei Gherciu

Berlin

Spuck delivers compelling drama in Staatsballett's season opener

Von Vikki Jane Vile, 24. Oktober 2023

Newly appointed Director of Staatsballett Berlin, Christian Spuck makes his mark with this season opener, a world premiere of Bovary, a ballet based on Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel of 1856.

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Berlin

24. Okt. 2023

Spuck delivers compelling drama in Staatsballett's season opener

Von Vikki Jane Vile

Lee Bisset (Brünnhilde) and Catherine Carby (Waltraute) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Fame and feuding on the Rhine: Longborough's new Götterdämmerung

Von Roy Westbrook, 29. Mai 2023

Longborough's Ring Cycle reaches completion in the Cotswold's, effectively staged by Amy Lane.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

29. Mai 2023

Fame and feuding on the Rhine: Longborough's new Götterdämmerung

Von Roy Westbrook

Le Couronnement de Poppée à l'Opéra national du Rhin © Klara Beck

Strasbourg

Gêne et perplexité face au Couronnement de Poppée d’Evgeny Titov à Strasbourg

Von Romain Daroles, 24. März 2023

La mise en scène ultra sexualisée du chef-d'œuvre de Monteverdi est gênante de naïveté et de kitsch, en parfait décalage avec la direction musicale de Raphaël Pichon.

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Strasbourg

24. März 2023

Gêne et perplexité face au Couronnement de Poppée à Strasbourg

Von Romain Daroles

Fearlessly heroic: Siegfried gets the Longborough Ring back on track

Von Matthew Rye, 30. Mai 2022

Longborough Festival Opera’s ongoing Ring cycle returns to its fully staged form with a triumphant new Siegfried.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

30. Mai 2022

Fearlessly heroic: Siegfried gets the Longborough Ring back on track

Von Matthew Rye

Ballett Zürich's Monteverdi celebrates music in dance

Von Sarah Batschelet, 15. Januar 2022

Blending the music of Monteverdi with lesser-known contemporaries, and even some pop, choreographer Christian Spuck takes leave of Zürich with a work that is as full of poetry as it is of emotional charge.

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Zürich

15. Jan. 2022

Ballett Zürich's Monteverdi celebrates music in dance

Von Sarah Batschelet

Christian Spuck's loveable Leonce and Lena returns to Ballett Zürich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 8. Dezember 2021

Spuck’s Leonce and Lena is a feel-good treat that lifts the spirits measurably and makes a fine case for the modern genre.

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Zürich

8. Dez. 2021

Christian Spuck's loveable Leonce and Lena returns to Ballett Zürich

Von Sarah Batschelet

A semi-successful semi-staging of Die Walküre at Longborough Festival Opera

Von Mark Valencia, 5. Juni 2021

Three performances in five days take their toll in a tight schedule of this concert production run in the Cotswolds.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

5. Juni 2021

A semi-successful semi-staging of Die Walküre at Longborough

Von Mark Valencia

Christian Spuck's enigmatic Winterreise revived by Ballett Zürich

Von Graham Watts, 13. Februar 2021

Christian Spuck gives choreographic identity to Hans Zender's composed interpretation of Franz Schubert's Winterreise.

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Zürich

13. Feb. 2021

Christian Spuck's enigmatic Winterreise revived by Ballett Zürich

Von Graham Watts

Transcendental spheres: dancing Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 24. November 2019

Christian Spuck revisits Verdi’s sublime Messa da Requiem with a host of gifted dancers and singers at the Zurich Opernhaus.

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Zürich

24. Nov. 2019

Transcendental spheres: dancing Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet

Down with bourgeoise indifference: a new ballet in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 12. Oktober 2019

In the Zurich premiere of The Little Match Girl, choreographer Christian Spück tackles a project of major proportions.

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Zürich

12. Okt. 2019

Down with bourgeoise indifference: a new ballet in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet

“For never was a story of more woe…”: brilliant revival of Spuck's Romeo and Juliet in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 1. Juni 2019

Giulia Tonelli's Juliet was sheer perfection, the true mainstay of this unforgettable performance.

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Zürich

1. Juni 2019

Brilliant revival of Spuck's Romeo and Juliet in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet

On longing and abandonment: Spuck’s Winterreise premieres in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 18. Oktober 2018

Christian Spuck, Zurich’s ballet director has crafted a new version of Hans Zender’s adaptation of Die Winterreise

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Zürich

18. Okt. 2018

On longing and abandonment: Spuck’s Winterreise premieres in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet

A Russian Reality Revisited: A new cast for Anna Karenina in Zürich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 15. Januar 2017

Just as rereading a favourite novel can give the reader new literary impulses to explore, so, too, can the revival of a popular ballet offer a fresh interpretation.

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Zürich

15. Jan. 2017

Revisiting Anna Karenina

Von Sarah Batschelet

Shaking fists at the fates: Christian Spuck's Messa da Requiem in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 3. Dezember 2016

Christian Spuck’s new ballet Messa da Requiem in Zurich, is a breathtakingly powerful achievement. But its profound impact is spurred by more than dance alone.

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Zürich

3. Dez. 2016

Messa di Requiem

Von Sarah Batschelet

Serving dark powers and evil games: Spuck’s Der Sandmann in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 28. Mai 2016

Christian Spuck’s marvellous ballet "Der Sandmann" (Sandman) was first performed in Stuttgart in the spring of 2006, but this marks its first run in Zurich.

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Zürich

28. Mai 2016

Spuck's Der Sandman, Zurich Ballet

Von Sarah Batschelet

The pulp of great fiction: Christian Spuck’s Romeo and Juliet in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 16. April 2016

At the Zurich opera house, ballet director and chief choreographer Christian Spuck employs emotionally charged imagery and highly acrobatic dance technique to tell the story his way.

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Zürich

16. Apr. 2016

Spuck's Romeo und Julia for Zurich Ballett

Von Sarah Batschelet

Another Good Woman Goes Down: The Zurich Ballet's "Anna Karenina"

Von Sarah Batschelet, 17. Oktober 2014

The Zurich Ballet's production of Anna Karenina is an opulent feast. The great tragedy of love, loyalty and betrayal was set against a seamless score of music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Witold Lutoslawski.

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Zürich

17. Okt. 2014

Spuck's Anna Karenina, Zurich Ballet

Von Sarah Batschelet

Berlin

A spooky Damnation de Faust in Berlin transports us to a sinister world

Von Christie Franke, 23. Februar 2014

Christian Spuck's new La damnation de Faust for the Deutsche Oper Berlin is creepy and elegant. Its impact will stay with you long after the opera is finished.

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Berlin

23. Feb. 2014

A spooky Damnation de Faust in Berlin transports us to a sinister world

Von Christie Franke

Zürich Ballett in Christian Spuck’s Woyzeck

Von Katja Vaghi, 13. Dezember 2013

The Zürich Ballet and Christian Spuck celebrate Georg Büchner’s anniversary with Woyzeck at the Zürich Opera House: a tragic ballet that perfectly balances emotion and form, abstraction and natural movement maintaining real life ambiguity.

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