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The Giocoso’s Enescu and Il Giardino Armonico’s Beethoven bookend an exhilarating day of rarities and classics.

No half measures in a triple-decker Hamburg staging of Saint François d'Assise at the Elbphilharmonie. 

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. 

Hamburg State Opera launches its new season with a visually overpowering but musically satisfying Così fan tutte.

Axel Ranisch's production makes heavy use of film to tell a comic story of a medieval knight in love.

Willy Decker's production, presented in Zürich in 2014, is revived at the Hamburgische Staatsoper with most of the same cast