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 This was opera which found expression using modern technology in a way that did not offend, intimidate or distract the audience, but rather enhanced the experience.

Kasper Holten's decade-old production begins to show its age, in a routine revival with undistinguished soloists.

Princess Beatrice scratches history from the record in Cathy Marston’s biographical ballet at Sadler’s Wells.

It's the libretto's equivocation that has denied King Roger the frequency of performance that its music deserves.

Britten's The Turn of the Screw finally makes its debut at La Scala in Kasper Holten's eerie staging. 

Kasper Holten's new production fails to convince about the alleged virtues of Wagner's outcast comic opera.

In his production of La traviata for the Swedish Royal Opera, Kasper Holten puts Violetta in a strip club and on the streets. Both the staging and the music are excellent, though the cast's acting is uneven.

Kasper Holten’s production does an impressive job of exploring the concepts of Szymanowski's Król Roger – perhaps more psychologically than philosophically. It’s a production well worth exploring.

Although technical problems threatened to undermine this production, Anja Harteros' Elsa and Klaus Florian Vogt's Lohengrin transcended all.