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Allan Clayton and Sir Bryn Terfel lead a strong cast in a revival of Deborah Warner's dark staging of Britten's signature work at Covent Garden. 

Iván Fischer's reworking of his 2017 production of Don Giovanni is musically capable, but dramatically unconvincing.

Hans Graf's penultimate season as Music Director ends with a performance of Mahler's epic Resurrection Symphony. 

Sir David McVicar's Figaro has been delighting audiences at the Royal Opera House since 2006. Is this its final outing? 

Jan Philipp Gloger's production returns to Amsterdam with a superb cast led by Maria Bengtsson and Angela Brower. 

The celebrated cellist becomes the first instrumentalist to be presented the Birgit Nilsson Prize by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf at the official Award Ceremony in Stockholm.

Deborah Warner's intelligent new Covent Garden staging provides the perfect backdrop for a strong singing cast in Britten's maritime masterpiece.

Keith Warner directs a new opera which packs in betrayal, murder, oppression, freedom, love and the Spanish Inquisition into a mere 90 minutes.

Based on Theodor Fontane's novel Oceane von Parceval, Detlev Glanert's eleventh opera is given its world premiere at Deutsche Oper.

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

Guth's production is beautiful to look at, but fails to bring out the best in Mozart's drama.

The Stepford wife, the doubting priest, the guilt-ridden adulteress, the family black sheep and the outsted, suicidal CEO:  staples in television dramas but surprising finds in Handel oratorio.

If Count Almaviva (to say nothing of Don Giovanni) were alive today, he might perhaps enlist Richard Dawkins to defend his behaviour. We know from evolutionary biology that the male stands the best chance of passing on his genes if he has many partners, the female if she can keep the male around to help raise the children he’s had with her.

C'est peut-être l'événement de la saison à l'Opéra de Paris : dans le chef-d'œuvre de Britten, la metteuse en scène britannique fait des débuts remarqués dans la Grande Boutique.

Le chef-d'œuvre mozartien est desservi par une lecture scénique qui tombe parfois dans le contresens, mais la distribution et la direction de Gustavo Dudamel en font une belle réussite musicale.

Poulencs bekannteste Oper wird zum ersten Mal an der Oper Frankfurt aufgeführt.

Vladimir Jurowski und die Solisten bringen das Requiem in schönster Schlichtheit zu Gehör, für die sich keine adäquaten Worte finden lassen.

Amélie Niermeyers Inszenierung von Dvořaks Werk ist ein Totalausfall; Sänger und Orchester geben zusätzlich nicht viel Anlass zur Freude.

Christian Gerhaher erbringt als Elias in Karohemd und Cargohose eine göttliche Leistung.

Bo Skovhus und Maria Bengtsson begeistern in Peter Konwitschnys gelungenem Wiederbelebungsversuch einer Rarität. Lasst uns träumen und leben, statt uns zu Tode zu konsumieren.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, NDR Chor und der Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks brillieren unter Hengelbrock mit Mendelssohns Lobgesang in der frisch eröffneten Hamburger Elbphilharmonie.

Capriccio in einer klugen, herausfordernden Inszenierung und in hervorragender Besetzung - ein Ereignis.

Diablement moral donc, et aussi glacial que redoutablement efficace, ce Don Giovanni compte parmi les relectures les plus saisissantes de ce drame que l’on qualifiera difficilement de joyeux.