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Given a new production by Evgeny Titov, Benjamin's second full-length opera is musically brilliant, but its examination of our inner darkness lacks heart.

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Zurich

22 May 2023

Lessons in Love and Violence: gorgeous tragedy without a heart

By Elodie Olson-Coons

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Edinburgh

Finally back indoors: a thrilling Edinburgh International Festival opening concert

By David Smythe, 06 August 2022

Sir Donald Runnicles led a vivid account of The Pines of Rome and an exciting yet thoughtful performance of Carmina Burana with three superb soloists.

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Edinburgh

07 Aug 2022

Finally back indoors: a thrilling EIF opening concert

By David Smythe

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival closes in style with a terrific Ariadne auf Naxos

By David Smythe, 25 August 2021

Memorable role debuts from Dorothea Röschmann, David Butt Philip and Catriona Morison make Ariadne auf Naxos with the RSNO and Lothar Koenigs a night to savour.

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Edinburgh

26 Aug 2021

EIF closes in style with a terrific Ariadne auf Naxos

By David Smythe

Hanover

One good Turn: a triumph of Hanoverian Britten

By Matthew Rye, 23 April 2021

Staatsoper Hannover’s new production of The Turn of the Screw packs a punch, both musically and dramatically.

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Hanover

25 Apr 2021

One good Turn: a triumph of Hanoverian Britten

By Matthew Rye

London

Prom 26: Mozart Requiem trumps the War of the Romantics for energy and drama

By Nick Boston, 07 August 2019

The War of the Romantics – Brahms v Wagner – from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nathalie Stutzmann, followed by an energetically powerful Mozart Requiem with the BBC National Chorus of Wales on fine form.

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London

09 Aug 2019

Prom 26: Mozart Requiem trumps the War of the Romantics

By Nick Boston

London

Prom 48: Rattle and the LSO play Ravel

By Mark Valencia, 18 August 2018

Neither Simon Rattle nor Magdalena Kožena could resist a tendency to add sentiment.

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London

19 Aug 2018

Prom 48: Rattle and the LSO play Ravel

By Mark Valencia

Amsterdam

Superb, sinister Tales of Hoffmann at Dutch National Opera

By Jenny Camilleri, 03 June 2018

Selectively unearthed from current critical editions, this fabulously performed new Hoffmann plumbs the murky depths of its antihero’s psyche.

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Amsterdam

04 Jun 2018

A superb, sinister Hoffmann at Dutch National Opera

By Jenny Camilleri

Leeds

Opera North's Cenerentola provides plenty of comedy and revels

By Richard Wilcocks, 16 February 2017

La Cenerentola is the final component of Opera North's fairytale season, with every voice and every character getting a chance to revel in Rossini's intricate ornamentation.

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Leeds

18 Feb 2017

Cenerentola provides plenty of comedy and revels

By Richard Wilcocks

Vienna

Comedy in the madhouse: A risky twist on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Theater an der Wien

By Chanda VanderHart, 13 April 2015

“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life,” stated the late, great Marlon Brando. Felix Breisach took this idea to heart when staging his modernized Figaro in a mental institution.

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Vienna

14 Apr 2015

Comedy in the madhouse: A risky twist on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro

By Chanda VanderHart

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Hanover

Im Nebel verloren: Das Märchen vom Zaren Saltan an der Staatsoper Hannover

By Svenja Koch, 15 January 2023

Eine packende musikalische Gestaltung steht in der Neuinszenzierung einer Regieidee, die sich nicht auf die Bühne übersetzen lässt, gegenüber.

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Hanover

16 Jan 2023

Im Nebel verloren: Das Märchen vom Zaren Saltan in Hannover

By Svenja Koch

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Zurich

Barkouf au pied de la lettre à l’Opernhaus de Zurich

By Romain Daroles, 27 October 2022

Malgré la direction décapante de Jérémie Rhorer, cette nouvelle production pâtit d'une distribution globalement peu à son avantage et d'une mise en scène tiède et littérale.

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Zurich

31 Oct 2022

Barkouf au pied de la lettre à l’Opernhaus de Zurich

By Romain Daroles