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Thomas Adès‘ The Tempest verzaubert an der Wiener Staatsoper
Ewig faszinierender Shakespeare in zeitgenössischer Musik und modernem Gewand, das „hat was“.
Ungemein üppig: Händels Imeneo in Göttingen
Historisch informierte Barockgesten und Balletteinschübe: Händels einzige Operette erlebt eine seltene Inszenierung und musikalische Wandlung in Sigried T'Hoofts neuer Produktion für die Internaltionalen Händel-Festspiele Göttingen.
Freudian slip: Handel’s Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums
Opha Phelan’s staging presents the action as a grand, Freudian social experiment. It’s a risk – but the production is lifted by outstanding performances from the cast and the Academy of Ancient Music.
Jonathan Dove’s excellent opera Flight touches down in Australia
Jonathan Dove’s opera Flight earns its title as the most popular modern opera with this excellent ensemble performance in Adelaide, its Australian premiere.
A feast of Purcell in Sir David Pountney’s Masque of Might
Sir David Pountney directs a satirical take on dictatorship and the climate crisis inventively set to the music of Purcell.
In the Realms of Sorrow: Handel cantatas in the round
Director Adele Thomas can do no wrong, sustaining her extraordinary run of fizz with this unlikely concatenation of four Handel cantatas at Stone Nest.