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Vladimir Jurowski's six-year Ring with the LPO closes as the cycle began: a gleaming, golden ring with a black hole at its core. 

Sailor suits and powder-puff bows as Herbert Fritsch directs a colourful new production in Berlin. 

A dearth of nuance affects this new production of Verdi's late masterpiece in Berlin, set in Sir John's gourmet kitchen. 

Nicola Raab's production doesn't quite provide the bold rethinking it promises, but stylish execution and a fine cast make for an effective modern Traviata. 

Sophisticated interpretation of The Bassarids by Hans Werner Henze at the Komische Oper Berlin

In Robert Carsen's staging, the “dead city” is absent: the scenery showing a bourgeois room that one imagines overlooking a bright avenue in Vienna or Berlin rather than a dark alley in Bruges.

The new version of La bohème at the Komische Oper Berlin follows a hard Verismo-beat.

The Komische Oper's new staging of Korngold's opera doesn't quite offer the necessary scale or atmosphere. 

There’s no doubt that Mélisande endeavours to escape past troubles when she first appears in Barrie Kosky’s production of Debussy’s opera, yet Nadja Mchantaf is no reticent, wispy maiden. Every vocal and physical gesture – always precise and penetrating – displays an atypically forthright quest for vitality, something that Arkel’s chauvinistic world does not readily offer.

Shostakovich's early masterpiece is fêted at the Komische Oper Berlin

Tchaikovsky's opera packs a powerful emotional punch in the Komische Oper's concentrated and dreamlike production.

Introspected and atmospheric, this late romantic opera appeals to the psychotherapists within us.

A woman, mother and outcast needs to make life choices in a hostile environment.

Revel with a naughty Don Giovanni at the Komische Opera in Berlin.

Barrie Kosky's new production of Eugene Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin is delicious for the eyes, ears and emotions. 

Signs of birth and death – but moreso death – flash continuously through the Latvian director Viestur Kairish’s new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which opened the Komische Oper Berlin’s 2013/14 season.