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Dieter Dorn’s staging robbed Wagner’s final masterwork of magic and mystery while Simon Rattle set new speed records.

A gripping performance of one of opera’s masterpieces in Berlin. 

An opening night of Così fan tutte in Munich in which Gaëlle Arquez and Marina Rebeka as the two sisters take the honours. 

In this minimalist period production of Figaro, the singing and acting are the centre of attention. A very talented cast carries the show, delivering beautiful singing and engaging comedy.

What man wants most is that which he cannot have. With a great deal of humour and attention to detail, Dieter Dorn leads Figaro and the household of his baronial palace through its “day of madness” to give us an evening of wonder.

Although written many years before Rossini's The Barber of Seville, the story of The Marriage of Figaro is in fact the sequel to that of the later opera. This farcical masterpiece of the opera buffa style was the first of three operas Mozart worked on with the Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte and was a risky undertaking.

For its 40th anniversary, the Hong Kong Arts Festival chose Mozart’s Così fan tutte as its main opera offering. Whatever you may call it – opera buffa, comedy of manners, or “dramma giocoso” – Mozart’s lovely music makes Così fan tutte wonderful entertainment. That’s what the Bavarian State Opera delivered on Sunday afternoon to commemorate this important milestone of the Festival.

Read our review of Dieter Dorn's production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in its 2008 broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.

Un duo formidable et une mise en scène efficace : porté par Petra Lang et Michael Weinius, le Crépuscule des Dieux de Dieter Dorn est venu clore la tétralogie genevoise avec panache.

L'Or du Rhin marque la réouverture du Grand Théâtre de Genève rénovée. Un bonheur d'équilibre, entre la saisissante mise en scène de Dieter Dorn et une distribution vocale des plus convaincantes.

Die Berliner Traviata besticht durch ein exzeptionelles Sängerensemble und feinfühliges Orchester.

Dieter Dorns 1997er Inszenierung bietet gute Unterhaltung, kann aber mit dem Starensemble um Diana Damrau nicht mithalten.

Berlins dritte Traviata wartet trotz Besetzungsänderung mit meisterlicher Klangkunst auf.

Des chanteurs, talentueux, une mise en scène efficace, un orchestre convaincant : tels sont les ingrédients d'un succès mérité.