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Johannes Laiacker’s inspired set designs were a perfect example of how a modern setting can avoid being gratuitously iconoclastic.

At least the colour-coded characters in Andreas Homoki’s farcical production made it easy to know which team to barrack for.

A musically strong revival of an austere production still leaves one feeling short-changed.

Pour les fêtes, l'Opéra de Toulon présente une nouvelle production décevante de la Zauberflöte de Mozart. 

Zum Jahresende boten die Musiker mit Orffs Carmina burana und Beethovens Neunter gleich zwei Reißer im Repertroire.