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The challenges of Cherubini’s version of the Greek tragedy prove too much for the National Theatre to overcome.

Aided by spirited singers and enthusiastic musicians, director Ondřej Havelka brings an imaginative, ironic touch to a lesser-known Smetana opera.

Donizetti's frothy romantic comedy takes on fresh appeal in this faithful rendering at the State Opera.

Choreography isn't the only thing lacking in Alexander Zemlinsky's comic gem Kleider machen Leute.

All the energy is in the pit in this flat production of a time-honored favorite.

“Who's dead, you or the old man?” asks Leporello after Don Giovanni’s duel with the Commendatore. What if the answer was that they had both received fatal wounds?

Dvořák's failed King and Charcoal Burner gets a second chance and new life at his namesake festival.

Tradition and modernity are a mismatch in this uneven production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece.

Prague's National Theater wraps its season with a wickedly funny revival of Offenbach's audacious operetta.

In a delirious opening to the new opera season, Prague's National Theatre puts a contemporary spin on Carl Orff and the Brothers Grimm.

Whilst the spirit of Mozart permeates the Estates Theatre in Prague, it was sadly absent in both the staging and singing of his “work of uninterrupted perfection”.  

The fantasy characters prove to be more interesting than the real ones in a Czech treatment of Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy-tale classic.

Is it opera, or operetta? Actually, Pucciniʼs La rondine looked more like 1930s Hollywood - men in tuxes, women in glamorous gowns, socialites with endless leisure time, people who barely know each other falling passionately in love – the only thing missing was Greta Garbo.