Intérprete: Georgy Vasiliev

Christof Loy and Carlo Rizzi score a great success in bringing Respighi’s rarely performed opera the Deutsche Oper Berlin. 

Weihnachten mal anders: Die Oper Frankfurt zeigt eine Rimsky-Korsakow Rarität und beschert so ein Fest fernab der gewohnten „Weihnachtsopern“.

Lotte de Beer wagt ein Capriccio aus Peter Tschakowskys Jolanthe und dem Nussknacker. Durchweg unterhaltsam, aber nicht bahnbrechend.

Kathleen Belcher's production is well sung and vividly characterized – but a focus on the comedy comes at the expense of pathos

Àlex Ollé's harbour production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for Opera Australia is attractive and thought-provoking, with strong performances from Hiromi Omura and Georgy Vasiliev.

“Poetry and again poetry – tenderness mixed with pain; sensuality, a drama surprising and burning, and a rocketing finale.” This is composer Giacomo Puccini describing one of the world’s most famous operas, La bohème.