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Matthias Davids’ impressive production needed the dynamism of Dudamel to do justice to Bernstein’s marvellous music.  

Bolcom’s McTeague, a two-act opera based on the 1899 novel McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris, is warmly received at its European première with the Landtheater Linz. 

Stephen Sondheim's gruesome masterpiece Sweeney Todd enjoys a successful and overdue première run at the Vienna Volksoper.

Smetana wrote Prodaná nevěsta (“The Bartered Bride”) as a light Czech folk piece in a playful reply to critics who said that his music was too Wagnerian, or too German for that matter – something not compatible with the growing Czech national consciousness in the period he composed it (1863–66), even though he only showed mild interest in the Czech cause.