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The Baden-Baden Easter Festival offers a memorable production of Pique Dame with excellent musical performances convincing in Leiser and Caurier's updating of the plot.

Its premiere postponed from Festival d'Aix last summer, Barrie Kosky's staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's political satire finally takes place in Lyon. 

Sophisticated interpretation of The Bassarids by Hans Werner Henze at the Komische Oper Berlin

Mariss Jansons and the Vienna Philharmonic do the real storytelling as Hans Neuenfels' staging underwhelms.

Tchaikovsky's opera packs a powerful emotional punch in the Komische Oper's concentrated and dreamlike production.

Barrie Kosky’s atypically conservative production of the Russian classic was marked by musical direction and vocal performances of the highest order.

The Stockholm Concert Hall hosts the Göteborg Symphonic Orchestra and Opera Chorus for a concert performance of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

Barrie Kosky's new production of Eugene Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin is delicious for the eyes, ears and emotions. 

The world ended again last night. It ends fairly frequently in performances and in recordings, and that schedule tends to innoculate us against Richard Wagner’s political and philosophical messages. If ever there were to be a performance to transcend that, it would come at the Proms, at the conclusion of its first full performance of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Krzysztof Warlikowsi inszeniert Weinbergs Oper ebenso klar wie packend, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla inspiriert die Wiener Philharmoniker zur Höchstleistung und auch das Sängerensemble bietet Topqualität. 

Barrie Kosky macht Rimsky-Korsakows letzte Oper zu einer Persiflage auf den mittelalten Mann in der Midlife Crisis.

La nariz nos ofrece la oportunidad de reflexionar en clave irónica sobre la creación en su contexto histórico, las vanguardias, la política, la sociedad y la filosofía.

Asmik Grigorian und David Butt Philip führen Janáčeks Oper zum Triumph.

Reprise de l'Onéguine de Barrie Kosky à Berlin : un spectacle toujours aussi bouleversant, avec cette fois-ci Ruzan Mantashyan en Tatiana.

Romantisch und ergreifend: Petrenko und die Berliner Philharmoniker rühren mit Tschaikowskys Jolanthe zu Tränen.

De retour à l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie pour la première fois depuis 1994, le chef-d'œuvre de Tchaïkovski repose sur une mise en scène sage, que compense une interprétation musicale engagée.

Frissons et effroi à l'Opéra de Lyon autour du duo flamboyant Naouri - Stundyte.