Orchestra Rehearsal: Fellini restaged in Tallinn

A double bill at the Birgitta Festival staged Scheherazade and the Polovtsian Dances, both performed in costumes and on sets based on the original designs dating from around 1910.

A double bill at the Birgitta Festival staged Scheherazade and the Polovtsian Dances, both performed in costumes and on sets based on the original designs dating from around 1910.

With an opera like Carmen, one never knows exactly what to expect. Recent trends (with English National Opera, for instance) have been to up the levels of raunchiness in an attempt to recreate the original scandale which this depiction of lower-class immorality in 19th-century Seville met with in Paris in 1875.

Nach dem Europakonzert in Eisenstadt folgten faszinierte Zuhörer Kirill Petrenko und den Berliner Philharmonikern in Werken von Strawinsky, Tschaikowsky und Beethoven.

Klar herausgearbeitete Kontraste und ein überwältigend starker dramatischer Puls prägten diese konzertante Aufführung von Wagners Oper im Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

Typische Feierlichkeit und Demut im Paradox-Amalgam lichter Dichte bestimmen diese erneute belgische Ensemblekooperation.