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Great singing and imaginative spectacle cannot turn an ambitious operatic premiere into a convincing whole. 

A visually delightful revival of Barbe & Doucet's action-packed Zauberflöte at Glyndebourne, with strong vocal performances throughout. 

The May Festival pulls all the stops to close their sesquicentennial season with Mahler’s vast and triumphant Eighth Symphony.

The Zurich opera house launches a novel production of Stefan Wirth's new opera in three movements based on the popular 1999 novel by Tracy Chevalier. 

De Waart once again showed a formidable grasp of the musical structure so that the occasional outbursts of violence made thematic sense and a strong feeling of tension led up to the final cry of despair.

The problem with on-stage vulgarity is that, while it might be sophisticated and knowing satire, it ends by being what it is parodying.

Jane Glover’s Cleveland Orchestra performance of Handel’s Messiah was both celebratory and historically-informed.

Written on Skin is a cold but effective opera full of musical and dramatic energy. Opera Philadelphia's new staging and talented young cast do it justice.

Dance takes center stage in Lyric Opera of Chicago's bold season-opening co-production of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice.

Baroque specialist Patrick Dupré Quigley shows impressive mastery of a large, modern ensemble in a smart performance of a period masterpiece.

“Love, love, love… that is the soul of genius,” said Mozart. In no other work does he demonstrate this affirmation more compellingly than in his forever-beloved opera, Die Zauberflöte. 

A high-minded approach to Bach's masterpiece is undercut by an uneven performance.

An all-Beethoven concert by Markus Stenz and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra provided an opportunity to hear familiar, not-so-familiar and downright rare repertoire from the master's pen.

This production proves that even Mozart’s best-laid plans can be undone.

Eine „Bach Christmas” wortwörtlich zwischen den Traditionen, interpretatorisch zwischen gewohnt dramatischen Reizen Pichons und stimmlich Unpassenderem.

L'Opéra national du Rhin lance sa saison 2021-2022 avec une création française : La Reine des neiges du Danois Abrahamsen, dans une production qui laisse place à la poésie et à l'imagination. 

Hector Berlioz reprenant Shakespeare, Richard Brunel et Catherine Ailloud-Nicolas Hector reprenant Berlioz. La production choisit de revenir dans les dialogues parlés au plus près de l’oeuvre originale.

Julia Lezhneva, Max Cencic und Armonia Atenea unter George Petrou brillieren in einer denkwürdigen konzertanten Aufführung von Hasses Siroe.

Grand succès de Hasse, le rival de Haendel, l’opéra Siroe, Re di Persia est tiré cet automne de l’oubli par Max Emanuel Cenčić dans le rôle-titre et à la mise en scène. Un spectacle éblouissant.