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Durchwachsener Erfolg für futuristische Leipziger Turandot
Balász Kovaliks neue dystopische Turandot ist musikalisch packend, doch die Inszenierung ist eher 70er TV-Serie als moderne Scifi.
Die Frau ohne Schatten in Leipzig
Für eine einfallsreiche Produktion, feinen Gesang und großartiges Orchesterspiel verdient diese neue Leipziger Frau ohne Schatten jeglichen Erfolg.
Tristan triumphs but Isolde languishes in Warsaw
Given the spate of visually distracting, if not irksome productions which seem to blight the opera world these days, there is something to be said for concert performances.
All the colours of the night: Tristan und Isolde
An uneven yet unforgettable performance, thanks to conductor Jaap van Zweden’s seductive colouring of the score and Jennifer Wilson’s refulgent Isolde.
A Turandot without a happy ending
Roberto De Simone's staging evokes a fabulous out-of-time China, and perfectly accompanies the majesty of Puccini’s last and unfinished opera. De Simone chooses to stop the opera at the point of Puccini's death, without Franco Alfano's finale.
CBSO and Andris Nelsons: The Flying Dutchman in concert
Andris Nelsons followed up his 2012 Tristan und Isolde with a stirring performance of Wagner’s breakthrough work, Der fliegende Holländer, with a fine array of soloists and the CBSO in Birmingham.
At a little over two hours, The Flying Dutchman is one of Wagner’s shorter operas, but it shares its supernatural themes with many of his other works.