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There is magic aplenty in director Stefan Herheim’s bold recontextualization of Gian Carlo Menotti's holiday opera. 

Herheim’s maiden voyage in his new capacity as Intendant confirms his ability to deftly negotiate a less-than-straightforward work with care and ambition and add his own voice enthusiastically to the mix.

A revival of Stefan Herheim's production of Handel's Xerxes in Düsseldorf makes for a rip-roaring evening of theatrical comedy.

Herheim places the composer at the centre of his opera in a staging that's clever and erudite but somewhat cold; musical performances are mixed.

Herheim pulls us in unexpected directions, makes us laugh and makes us think as we enjoy fine Rossinian music and singing in Opéra de Lyon's production.

Stefan Herheim's dreamlike production of Debussy's opera sets it squarely in the Sussex manor house that gave birth to Glyndebourne's festival. 

Stefan Herheim packs puns and gags into a three-hour long show, but less could have been more. 

With many costume changes, notably into a Sun-King with very prominent phalic sunburst, Houtzeel held centre-stage in the title role.

Stefan Herheim's eagerly awaited production of Berg's Wozzeck distances us from the emotional heart of the tragedy by portraying the story as a hallucinatory death-room experience.

A mural depicting Etna erupting is the only hint of Sicily in Stefan Herheim’s opulent staging, returning to Covent Garden for the first time since the Royal Opera’s Verdi bicentenary celebrations in 2013. 

Mozart's very notes become servant to the cause in an ingenious staging of Le nozze di Figaro by one of today's most esteemed directors.

With his first foray into Rossini, Norwegian director Stefan Herheim turns La Cenerentola into a brilliantly funny spectacle, filled with thought provoking humour and outstanding singing.

The role of the outsider struck a chord with Tchaikovsky, whose homosexuality alienated him from society. Stefan Herheim takes that identification as the central idea in his remarkable new production at Dutch National Opera.

Zombie clowns abound in Stefan Herheim's uncomfortably comical and upsetting Copenhagen production of Alban Berg's Lulu.

For his fourth production for the new Oslo opera house, Norwegian director Stefan Herheim turned his attention to Richard Strauss’ one-act opera Salome. This production is a co-production with the Salzburg Easter Festival (where this production premièred in 2011) and the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Puccini is one of opera’s best loved composers. With so many popular titles to his name, it is somewhat surprising how infrequently his first great success, Manon Lescaut, is performed today. What makes this even more unusual is the opera’s universal appeal.

Manon, Mimi, Tosca and Cio-Cio San. Why does Puccini send these women to such heartless deaths? It’s a question which musicologist Mosco Carner answered in the 1950s with a speculative Freudian reduction (the composer apparently had a debilitating mother complex).

Stefan Herheim legt Händels Oratorium ins Wiener Café Central – verführerisch wie die Kuchenvitrine.

Stuart Skelton als Grimes und Edward Gardner am Pult prägten Herheims imponierende Neuinszenierung von Brittens Oper am Nationaltheater.

So schließt sich der Kreis. Mit Siegfried wird nun der letzte Teil von Stefan Herheims Ring an der Deutschen Oper Berlin enthüllt.

Stefan Herheim schmiedet seinen Ring des Nibelungen an der Deutsche Oper Berlin mit einem Finale, das es in sich hat.

El Teatro Real inicia la temporada 21-22 con una agitada producción de La Cenerentola de Rossini con dirección musical de Riccardo Frizza y esscénica de Stefan Herheim.

El Teatro Real abre su centésima temporada con una atrevida Cenerentola de Stefan Herheim.

Der langersehnte Herheim-Ring kann nun endlich mit einem aufschlussreichen und spannend erzählten Rheingold beginnen.

Die überladene Inszenierung kann den Sängern, angeführt von Lise Davidsen, nicht das Wasser reichen.

Dans le cadre de sa programmation estivale, l'opéra comique de Berlin proposait une nouvelle production de Barbe-Bleue de Jacques Offenbach.

La nouvelle mise en scène de Stefan Herheim se joue de tout pathos et convoque une esthétique hilarante, située entre la parodie de Disney et l’humour acerbe des Monty Python.

In der Wiederaufnahme von Stefan Herheims Inszenierung fällt die Kunst (wieder) aus dem Rahmen und hat dabei vor allem musikalisch einiges an Feuer zu bieten.

Entre l'imaginaire de Pedro Calderon, celui de Lewis Caroll ou encore de Jonathan Swift, cette nouvelle production signée Stefan Herheim invite à la réflexion sur la frontière entre folie et sommeil, illusion et réalité, amour et raison.

La mise en scène de Stefan Herheim scrute l’ambiguïté de la nymphe tchèque dans une éblouissante production.

Lady Gaga + Captain Jack Sparrow = Xerxes. Nach dieser Formel inszenierte Stefan Herheim Händels Oper als barocken Bilderrausch, der mit großartigen musikalischen Leistungen zum vollen Erfolg wurde.