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Promoting Leonore, the original version of Beethoven's Fidelio, René Jacobs made several choices of his own, only some of them justifiable.

A revival of Stefan Herheim's production of Handel's Xerxes in Düsseldorf makes for a rip-roaring evening of theatrical comedy.

Christian Thielemann led a memorable performance of Strauss's chamber opera Ariadne auf Naxos with a strong cast in a new straightforward production by David Hermann.

Animated characters are the real stars of an imaginative production of The Magic Flute. 

Billy Budd triumphs in Madrid thanks to an inspired orchestra, a solid cast and a dream team of stage magicians.

Hitchcock's Spellbound meets One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest in Deutsche Oper am Rhein's retelling of Prokofiev's tale of obsession and demonic possesion.