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The French director updates the action to the present day, underscoring the validity of the plot – feuding families and class differences are still relevant. 

In a new production for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, director Barbora Horáková and conductor Max Renne guide the audience through Georg Friedrich Haas' deep reflection on death. 

A superb musical foundation under Antonio Pappano forms the basis for a satisfying new Fanciulla del West at the Staatoper in Berlin. 

Daniel Barenboim conducts an underwhelming cast in the Staatsoper's new Samson et Dalila, and Argentinian director Damián Szifron's operatic debut is stale and cliché-ridden.