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Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history
Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production.
Olfactory and ocular obfuscation: The Nose in Hamburg
Kent Nagano and the forces of Staatsoper Hamburg launch their new season with a production of Shostakovich's very first opera in which the ears are beguiled but the eyes are not.
Homoki’s Rigoletto brings the Bundesliga to Hamburg
At least the colour-coded characters in Andreas Homoki’s farcical production made it easy to know which team to barrack for.