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The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment takes on its biggest ever challenge under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.

It’s not often that operas in English get performed in Germany, and so I was somewhat surprised to see such a large and important company as the Berliner Staatsoper taking on Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.

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.

Mit Pavol Breslik und Adriana Kučerová gab sich im Slowakischen Nationaltheater in einer Vorstellung von Smetanas komischer Oper eine Traumbesetzung die Ehre. 

En ce temps de Pâques, le Messie de Haendel trouve toute sa place dans la Chapelle de la Trinité de Lyon. Si la réputation du chef Spinosi et de son ensemble Matheus est à présent faite, le choeur de chambre Mélisme[s] relève véritablement la soirée qui, côté orchestre, a toutefois mis un peu de temps pour entrer dans la partition.