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Bayrischer Staatsoper’s revival of Warlikowski’s static production of Tristan und Isolde featured a sensational role debut of Elena Pankratova as Isolde.

A delayed season opening at the Teatro di San Carlo, but a night of epic grand opera as Claus Guth and Juraj Valčuha deliver a weighty Don Carlo.

Finally reaching the stage of the Venetian theatre, Benjamin Britten's first major opera meets with success thanks to Juraj Valčuha's conducting, Paul Curran's staging and an excellent cast.

Despite the setting in a condo, Dante’s staging is basically traditional, to the point of even respecting the original story's 1830s fashions.

What do you do when your planned season opener bites the dust? Fly in the stars and put on a concert performance of a verismo favourite. 

One of Puccini's less renowned works returns to the Teatro San Carlo after over thirty years away.

Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov and Ludovic Tézier captivate the audience in the scenic square a few metres from the opera house

Willy Decker does not try to make the structure of the plot any clearer, mainly concentrating on the deeper meaning of the work. The cast was excellent.

Notwithstanding director Pippo Delbono's narcissistic excesses, his staging confirmed itself as effective and penetrating.

A terrific staging of Janáček's opera is successfully revived at the Teatro di San Carlo.

After a number of eccentric stagings, Mario Pontiggia's traditional production is a hit in Naples. 

Many scenes could risk to be particularly disturbing,  but their overt brutality appeared functional, to the structure of the drama. A dark, gloomy story as unambiguously told as it should be.

A movie-like staging for Puccini's most original opera at the Teatro San Carlo.

The staging highlighted Carmen’s rebellious traits more than her sensual exoticism.

Juraj Valčuha’s CSO debut was an evening of diverse repertoire, from Haydn to Strauss (both Johann II and Richard) to Szymanowski, the latter featuring a memorable performance by Christian Tetzlaff.

The Comunale had teamed up with Bologna's basketball team Virtus to create a 50%-off ticket deal aimed at drawing new audiences. The subject matter of this opera might not seem the most immediately accessible, but this was playing to capture the imaginations of opera newbies.

A reading full of emotion from conductor Juraj Valčuha sets up one of the best San Carlo Orchestra’s performances of this season.

Gil Shaham and Juraj Valčuha join the San Francisco Symphony for electrifying performances reminding listeners of the true joy of dialogic music-making and the excitement of high-caliber ensemble collaboration.

Edge and bite in Bartók from Zimmermann, followed by intense but restrained Shostakovich from Valčuha and the Philharmonia.

NSO gives another convincing performance of Shakespeare inspired works. 

“More facility than substance”: perhaps an apt description of the music of Ottorino Respighi.  Certainly on the evidence of last night’s concert, featuring the three ever popular Roman tone poems, one could have been left with that impression, but we had a thoroughly good time in the process.

Roberto De Simone's staging evokes a fabulous out-of-time China, and perfectly accompanies the majesty of Puccini’s last and unfinished opera. De Simone chooses to stop the opera at the point of Puccini's death, without Franco Alfano's finale.

A correct rendition of an improvised program, featuring symphonies by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, following the sudden absence of the cellist Alban Gerhardt.

As the majestic horn calls echoed around the vaulted ceiling and full orchestral tuttis shook the very walls, Mahler brought the very heart of Christianity to Worcester's magnificent Cathedral in his truly remarkable “Resurrection Symphony”.

Attending a concert at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples is always an amazing experience. But last Sunday’s concert was also confirmation of the excellence of two relatively young artists, conductor Juraj Valčuha and pianist Roberto Cominiani.

Mit einer zutiefst religiös empfundenen Totenmesse machten die Bamberger die Konzerthalle zur Kathedrale.

Den Münchner Philharmonikern gelingt unter der Leitung von Juraj Valčuha ein römisch-spanisches Klangspektakel mit Werken von Debussy und Respighi.

L'Orchestre de Paris sous la direction du chef slovaque Juraj Valčuha nous offre un programme original autour d'un Bartók plutôt timide, d'un Prokofiev admirable de poésie (avec le violoniste Vadim Gluzman) et d'un Janáček luxuriant.

L’orchestre et le chœur de l’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia  proposait un concert éclectique réunissant compositeurs du Centre et de l'Est européens.