Performer: Andrzej Dobber

In Peter Konwitschny Klassenzimmer-Inszenierung wir Nationalismus und Krieg der Spiegel vorgehalten.

Chowanschtschina bietet auch ausreichend Gelegenheit zu mächtiger, ergreifender und grandioser stimmlichen Entfaltung, hier wundervoll dargeboten von einer bemerkenswerten Besetzung, angeführt von Ain Anger, Elena Maximova und Ferruccio Furlanetto.

Saioa Hernández leads a solid cast in Dresden in a somewhat disappointing new production by David Bösch.

Houston Grand Opera’s season-opening production of the fiery opera does it right, from lighting to set to singing, and the end result is a stunning beginning to its season.

Director Tatjana Gürbaca’s production of Aida in Zurich strictly underscores the psyche and emotional parrying of the principals.

Of all the mischievous dramatic reversals that line Rigoletto’s plot – the hunchbacked jester tricked into abducting his own daughter, the daughter tricked into loving the brainless Duke (posing as a penniless student), and the terrifying reunion of father and daughter in a scene of murder – is not the most breathtaking, after all, the fact that the opera begins with a convincing display of the de