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Anne Sofie von Otter dominates the scene in Stockholm's Carmélites
The Royal Swedish Opera revives Garpe’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites with a committed cast.
Deception reigns in Loy’s Der Rosenkavalier in Stockholm
Malin Byström convinces as the Feldmarschallin with Adrian Angelico as a strong Octavian, under the baton of Alan Gilbert.
Iréne Theorin triumphs as Elektra in Stockholm
A quasi-concertante setting highlights Theorin's masterful performance as Elektra, Cornelia Beskow's fragile, human Chrysothemis and Katarina Dalayman's haunting Klytaemnestra.
Ragnarök: the long twilight of the Stockholm Ring
Ragnarök: the Swedish title for Götterdämmerung resonates with Old Norse folk memories of universal inundation and overthow of the order of the gods.
An outstanding Swedish Sieglinde in Stockholm
Stemme as Brünnhilde delivered her opening battle cry in Victorian riding habit like one of Trollope's racier fox- hunting heroines.
Kasper Holten's gritty, modern Traviata in Stockholm
In his production of La traviata for the Swedish Royal Opera, Kasper Holten puts Violetta in a strip club and on the streets. Both the staging and the music are excellent, though the cast's acting is uneven.