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Opera North’s “fleeing” Dutchman links to the plight of asylum seekers

By Richard Wilcocks, 01 February 2025

Opera North’s The Flying Dutchman, directed by Annabel Arden, conjures up frightening storms and links the production to the plight of asylum seekers.

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Leeds

02 Feb 2025

Opera North’s “fleeing” Dutchman links to plight of asylum seekers

By Richard Wilcocks

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Vienna

Deconstructed within an inch of its life: Lulu at MusikTheater an der Wien

By Chanda VanderHart, 31 May 2023

Marlene Monteiro Freitas directs her first opera, in which Lulu, if not buried alive, is certainly left completely unrecognizable.

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Vienna

02 Jun 2023

Deconstructed within an inch of its life: a new Lulu in Vienna

By Chanda VanderHart

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Boston

To the Underworld and back: Thomas Adès conducts the Boston Symphony

By Kevin Wells, 24 March 2023

Thomas Adès conducts music from his own ballet score to The Dante Project and Stravinsky's Persephone.

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Boston

28 Mar 2023

To the Underworld and back: Thomas Adès conducts the Boston Symphony

By Kevin Wells

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Zurich

Ballett Zürich's Monteverdi celebrates music in dance

By Sarah Batschelet, 15 January 2022

Blending the music of Monteverdi with lesser-known contemporaries, and even some pop, choreographer Christian Spuck takes leave of Zürich with a work that is as full of poetry as it is of emotional charge.

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Zurich

17 Jan 2022

Ballett Zürich's Monteverdi celebrates music in dance

By Sarah Batschelet

London

La clemenza: Royal Opera back in front of a live audience with political scheming... and football

By Stephen Pritchard, 17 May 2021

A pared back production is required in these Covid times: as little physical contact as possible, no chorus on stage, and tempi brisk and alert to keep the audience in the house for as short a time as possible.

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London

18 May 2021

La clemenza: Royal Opera returns with political scheming

By Stephen Pritchard

Zurich

Technology to the rescue in Zurich's new staging of Boris Godunov

By Laura Servidei, 20 September 2020

The Zurich Opernhaus tackles the pandemic with an innovative strategy: instead of reducing the size of orchestra and chorus (as many other European opera houses) it removes them from the theatre altogether.

Zurich

22 Sep 2020

Technology to the rescue in Zurich's new staging of Boris Godunov

By Laura Servidei

Vienna

Texture, shading and aesthetic richness: Theater an der Wien premieres Christian Jost's Egmont

By Chanda VanderHart, 19 February 2020

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

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Vienna

21 Feb 2020

Theater an der Wien premieres Christian Jost's Egmont

By Chanda VanderHart

London

A mortal nothingness: Verdi's Requiem at Westminster Cathedral

By Olivia Bell, 18 September 2018

This concert was inevitably the sum of far more than its parts, and not for nothing are the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantiquem, regarded as among the best in the world

London

20 Sep 2018

A mortal nothingness: Verdi's Requiem at Westminster Cathedral

By Olivia Bell

Stockholm

Šerkšnytė's Songs of Sunset and Dawn intoxicates at the Baltic Sea Festival

By Simon Cummings, 30 August 2018

The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra present two works at the Berwaldhallen that both look to the past and future.

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Stockholm

03 Sep 2018

Songs of Sunset and Dawn intonxicates at the Baltic Sea Festival

By Simon Cummings

Glyndebourne

Barber's Vanessa at Glyndebourne: repression in a cold climate

By David Karlin, 05 August 2018

Brilliant staging, superb acting, a magnetic performance from Virginie Verrez and an excellent orchestral performance make a strong case for Samuel Barber's all-but-forgotten chiller.

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Glyndebourne

06 Aug 2018

Vanessa at Glyndebourne: repression in a cold climate

By David Karlin

Gateshead

A self-confident Beethoven 9 from Lars Vogt and Royal Northern Sinfonia

By Jane Shuttleworth, 09 June 2018

Lars Vogt and Royal Northern Sinfonia deliver Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 with swaggering self-confidence, and heroic chorus singing.

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Gateshead

10 Jun 2018

A self-confident Beethoven 9 from Vogt and the RNS

By Jane Shuttleworth

Paris

For whom the bell tolls: Saint-Saëns' Le Timbre d'argent chimes again at the Opéra Comique

By Mark Pullinger, 09 June 2017

Palazzetto Bru Zane, spurred on by the zealous advocacy of conductor François-Xavier Roth, has turned to Saint-Saëns' very first opera, Le Timbre d'argent.

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Paris

10 Jun 2017

For whom the bell tolls at the Opéra Comique

By Mark Pullinger

Brussels

Prima la musica: an intriguing Capriccio in Brussels

By Matthew Rye, 10 November 2016

Strauss' 'conversation piece' of an opera is given a warmly sympathetic production with the musical rewards coming as much from the pit as the stage.

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Brussels

11 Nov 2016

Prima la musica: an intriguing Capriccio in Brussels

By Matthew Rye

Santa Fe

A thoughtful Don Giovanni at Santa Fe

By Maria Nockin, 01 August 2016

In Ron Daniels' production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera, the specter of death and the possibility of judgment is always center stage.

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Santa Fe

04 Aug 2016

A thoughtful Don Giovanni at Santa Fe

By Maria Nockin

Berlin

A tale of three Hoffmanns: Kosky’s Komische Oper production a triumph

By Mark Pullinger, 07 October 2015

Barrie Kosky, with nods to the surreal and the macabre, plunges us headlong into Hoffmann’s nightmarish world in a terrific new production at the Komische Oper.

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Berlin

08 Oct 2015

A tale of three Hoffmanns at the Komische Oper

By Mark Pullinger

London

Prom 39: Turkish delight - Glyndebourne's Die Entführung aus dem Serail

By Hedy Mühleck, 14 August 2015

You think semi-staged opera is only half the fun? Think again. Glyndebourne's production of Mozart's oriental opera was a revelation.

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London

15 Aug 2015

Turkish delight as Glyndebourne comes to the Proms

By Hedy Mühleck

Glyndebourne

McVicar’s stylish Entführung emerges as a strong moral tale at Glyndebourne

By Mark Pullinger, 13 June 2015

David McVicar updates Mozart's Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail to the time of composition in a stylish, tender production at Glyndebourne.

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Glyndebourne

14 Jun 2015

McVicar’s stylish Entführung at Glyndebourne

By Mark Pullinger

London

Breezy virtuosity from the Royal Opera with Angela Gheorghiu in La Rondine

By Paul Kilbey, 05 July 2013

In La rondine’s climactic scene, when Magda explains to her young lover Ruggero why she believes she must leave him, Puccini sets their exchange to one of the most hackneyed of all musical formulas: the cycle of fifths.

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London

06 Jul 2013

Breezy virtuosity from the Royal Opera with Angela Gheorghiu in La Rondine

By Paul Kilbey

London

Stravinsky's Renard at The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta

By Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, 10 February 2013

Venturing into the Paris of the 1910s and 1920s, the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival continues its journey through a brambly thicket of 20th-century music. Sunday’s programme focused on the output of Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer who famously engendered riotous uproar at the Paris Opera House in 1913 with his savage ballet Le sacre du printemps.

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London

13 Feb 2013

Stravinsky's Renard at The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta

By Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade

London

Jette Parker Young Artists Tenth Anniversary celebrated at ROH: Il Viaggio a Reims

By Katy S. Austin, 19 July 2012

The Tenth Anniversary of the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists Scheme is a landmark of no small size. This summer performance brought back some of the best singers it has produced for a semi-staged rendition of Rossini’s one-act 1825 opera Il Viaggio a Reims. It was a celebratory display of virtuoso held together with a generous dose of self-indulgence.

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London

22 Jul 2012

Jette Parker Young Artists Tenth Anniversary celebrated at ROH: Il Viaggio a Reims

By Katy S. Austin

Edinburgh

Scottish Opera: The Rake's Progress

By Alan Coady, 31 March 2012

Paradox is unsurprising in the works of a composer who said: "The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit." The often distancing neoclassical idiom seemed unable to deny Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951) emotionally engaging and affecting music.

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Edinburgh

02 Apr 2012

Scottish Opera: The Rake's Progress

By Alan Coady