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Amsterdam

6. Dez. 2018

Enescus komplexer Oedipe in Amsterdam

Von Michael Klier

Seattle

A rite of spring turned inward: Strauss’ Daphne at Seattle Opera

Von Thomas May, 16. Januar 2026

Presented without staging, Seattle Opera’s concert Daphne places Strauss’ extreme vocal demands and saturated orchestral writing in sharp relief, offering a high-risk encounter with a rarely heard late opera.

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Seattle

16. Jan. 2026

A rite of spring turned inward: Strauss’ Daphne at Seattle Opera

Von Thomas May

London

ENO gives Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots a worthy performance

Von Nick Boston, 15. Februar 2025

Musgrave's powerful depiction of a powerful woman at the mercy of male manipulation receives a strong staging from at ENO.

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London

15. Feb. 2025

ENO gives Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots a worthy performance

Von Nick Boston

Heidi Stober (Gretel) and Kate Lindsey (Hansel) © The Royal Opera | Tristram Kenton 2024

London

Done to a turn: something for everyone in The Royal Opera’s Hansel and Gretel

Von Peter Quantrill, 22. Dezember 2024

Kate Lindsey and Heidi Stober weave vocal magic in the latest Covent Garden revival of Humperdinck's box of delights.

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London

22. Dez. 2024

Done to a turn: something for everyone in Hansel and Gretel

Von Peter Quantrill

Dresden

Detlev Glanert's Die Jüdin von Toledo premieres at Semperoper Dresden

Von Zenaida des Aubris, 10. Februar 2024

Robert Carsen stages the world premiere production of Glanert's opera, based Franz Grillparzer's 1851 play, in stringent, minimalist style.

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Dresden

10. Feb. 2024

Detlev Glanert's Die Jüdin von Toledo premieres at the Semperoper

Von Zenaida des Aubris

Santander

La coral Andra Mari ilumina y eleva la despedida del Festival de Santander

Von Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 31. August 2023

El Festival Internacional de Santander cierra su edición de 2023 con la Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen y la Coral Andra Mari en una magnífica interpretación de la Misa Nelson de Joseph Haydn.

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Santander

31. Aug. 2023

La coral Andra Mari ilumina la despedida del Festival de Santander

Von Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro

New Meistersinger at Deutsche Oper Berlin succeeds musically despite the muddled production

Von Ako Imamura, 18. Juni 2022

Set in a 1930s music school, Sergio Morabito, Jossi Wieler and Anna Viebrick's new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Deutsche Oper Berlin has some inspirational ideas but they often get in the way of the music.

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Berlin

18. Juni 2022

New Meistersinger succeeds musically despite the muddled production

Von Ako Imamura

New York City

A musically ideal Così in The Met's revival

Von Robert Levine, 18. Februar 2020

Phelim McDermott’s Coney Island Così fan tutte returns to The Met, in sparkling vocal performances.

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New York City

18. Feb. 2020

A musically ideal Così in The Met's revival

Von Robert Levine

Exquisite Handelian singing in San Francisco Opera's Orlando

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 21. Juni 2019

The evening’s most revelatory performance came from the young countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as Medoro.

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San Francisco

21. Juni 2019

Exquisite Handelian singing in San Francisco Opera's Orlando

Von Edward Sava-Segal

Chicago

A vibrant, urgent Ariodante at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Von Katherine Syer, 2. März 2019

A revival of Richard Jones’ production of Handel’s emotionally probing opera.

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Chicago

2. März 2019

A vibrant, urgent Ariodante at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Von Katherine Syer

Carmen the butcher: a grotesque new production at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Von Zenaida des Aubris, 20. Januar 2018

Stage director Ole Anders Tandberg casts Carmen as the leader of a gang of human organ dealers.

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Berlin

20. Jan. 2018

Carmen the butcher at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Von Zenaida des Aubris

High Wycombe

All that glitters: Miskimmon's hyperactive Semele opens Garsington’s season

Von Mark Pullinger, 1. Juni 2017

On a golden afternoon on the Wormsley estate, not everything on stage necessarily glittered, but there’s plenty of spirit in Annilese Miskimmon's production to entertain.

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High Wycombe

1. Juni 2017

All that glitters: Garsington's Semele

Von Mark Pullinger

A few inconsistencies but many splendours in Deutsche Oper's Ballo

Von Stephen Crowe, 19. November 2016

People who claim that opera is nothing more than a glorified pantomime would have their prejudices confirmed at Deutsche Oper Berlin's Un ballo in maschera. This is, however, high praise. It’s an evening of camp entertainment, not a philosophy lesson.

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Berlin

19. Nov. 2016

Deutsche Oper's Un ballo in maschera

Von Stephen Crowe

Comedy and cruelty in Don Pasquale at San Francisco Opera

Von Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 28. September 2016

Four star singers shine in Pelly's glamorous production of Don Pasquale, which brings out both the lightness and the darkness of the opera.

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San Francisco

28. Sept. 2016

Comedy and cruelty in Don Pasquale

Von Ilana Walder-Biesanz

Houston

Houston Grand Opera wastes a Figaro

Von Sydney Boyd, 22. Januar 2016

This production proves that even Mozart’s best-laid plans can be undone.

Houston

22. Jan. 2016

Houston Grand Opera wastes a Figaro

Von Sydney Boyd

Chicago

A luminous Merry Widow in Chicago

Von Graham Emberton, 14. November 2015

Love, light, levity, life. A joyful performance of Franz Lehár's Parisian operetta offers catharsis in troubling times.

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Chicago

14. Nov. 2015

A luminous Merry Widow in Chicago

Von Graham Emberton

Bloody fun with Sweeney Todd at San Francisco Opera

Von Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 18. September 2015

San Francisco Opera's production of Sweeney Todd brings nothing new to the musical, but the cast includes wonderful surprises – most notably Stephanie Blythe's Mrs Lovett.

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San Francisco

18. Sept. 2015

Bloody fun with Sweeney Todd

Von Ilana Walder-Biesanz

Santa Fe

Celestial Mozart despite the earthbound plot: La finta giardiniera at Santa Fe Opera

Von Michael Wade Simpson, 25. Juli 2015

Mozart himself might have pulled a few weeds from this early opera. Lovely voices and sprightly playing can't overcome an overgrown plot in Santa Fe.

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Santa Fe

25. Juli 2015

Celestial Mozart despite the earthbound plot

Von Michael Wade Simpson

Philadelphia

Opera Philadelphia's Oscar disappoints despite strong performances

Von David Browning, 6. Februar 2015

Outstanding vocal performances and Oscar Wilde's own words don't save this new opera based on his incarceration at Reading Gaol.

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Philadelphia

6. Feb. 2015

Opera Philadelphia's Oscar disappoints

Von David Browning

Misfiring, updated Turandot ends murderously

Von David Larkin, 12. Dezember 2014

Deutsche Oper's production of Turandot ends with a double murder. Whatever point director Lorenzo Fioroni may have been trying to make about unhinged power, it failed to solve the problems of the ending of Puccini's opera.

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Berlin

12. Dez. 2014

Misfiring, updated Turandot ends murderously

Von David Larkin

A new L'elisir d'amore sparkles at the Deutsche Oper

Von Christie Franke, 25. April 2014

Irina Brook's new production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore sparkles in a witty new production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

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Berlin

25. Apr. 2014

A new L'elisir d'amore sparkles at the Deutsche Oper

Von Christie Franke

A Vintage Figaro at the Deutsche Oper

Von Christie Franke, 26. Februar 2014

Le nozze di Figaro in Götz Friedrich’s vintage production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin provides an entertaining evening.

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Berlin

26. Feb. 2014

A Vintage Figaro at the Deutsche Oper

Von Christie Franke

Bryn Terfel's irrepressible Falstaff with San Francisco Opera

Von Jeffery S. McMillan, 8. Oktober 2013

It may have taken Verdi’s bicentennial to bring Falstaff back to the San Francisco Opera, but at last the knight has returned to the company’s stage for the first time in over a decade...

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San Francisco

8. Okt. 2013

Bryn Terfel's irrepressible Falstaff with San Francisco Opera

Von Jeffery S. McMillan

An English Magic Flute at San Francisco Opera

Von Jeffery S. McMillan, 29. Juni 2012

In keeping with its summer season of novelties, San Francisco Opera have produced a new English-language production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Advertisements for the production showed baritone Nathan Gunn in a green, full-body leotard as a sort of frogman of a Papageno, leaping in the air and wearing a manic expression.

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San Francisco

29. Juni 2012

An English Magic Flute at San Francisco Opera

Von Jeffery S. McMillan

Stylishly sung San Francisco revival of Handel's "Xerxes" is not to be missed

Von Stephen Raskauskas, 11. November 2011

“A revival of a revival of a revival” might describe Handel’s practice of reviving his own works. This highly acclaimed revival production of Handel's Xerxes received it best performance to date with a star-studded cast.Xerxes tells the tale of two brothers, Xerxes and Arsamenes, both competing for the same bride – Romilda.

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