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“Go big or go home” could easily have been the motto of this summer’s festival. Muti didn’t just go big. He went huge. 

It's difficult to believe Salzburg could have cast a finer Così in Loy's Covid-reduced production in the Großes Festspielhaus.

Marianne Crebassa and Maxim Mironov shine in a revival of Rossini’s masterpiece, for an evening of great fun.

Marianne Crebassa and Esa-Pekka Salonen take the audience on a dazzling musical journey from Rome to Asia.

The performance of the young French mezzo-soprano was admired more for its correctness than for its seductiveness.

Two rarely performed works are showcased by the Staatskapelle under Daniel Barenboim.

Synergies between singers compensated for accurate but unexciting orchestral playing.

Marble and solitude: Willy Decker's view of La clemenza di Tito is revived with a strong cast at L'Opéra de Paris.

Director Davide Livermore updates the plot to the period of the Russian Revolution, October 1917, a far echo of that turning point in 1403 when the Ottoman sultan Bajazet was defeated by the Tartar Timburlaine.

Staggering performances from Esa-Pekka Salonen and Philharmonia in John Adams’s sonic journey, Naïve and Sentimental Music, and Marianne Crebassa exquisite in Ravel’s Shéhérazade.

With barely time for coffee and baklava after the Orchestre Pasdeloup's Arabian matinee, I stepped boldly back into the harem for a rendezvous with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. 

Nothing is better than when Berlioz ramps up the decibels. With a huge orchestra and choir and a deluxe starry cast assembled in Strasbourg, this was a special performance. 

At La Scala, Milan a disappointing tribute to Giorgio Strehler's historic staging of The Marriage of Figaro by young English director Frederic Wake-Walker. 

The singing is the main attraction in Dutch National Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro, but this new production is also entertaining and looks good enough to eat.

If the production is full of pleasures, they do not immediately or obviously connect to a sense of some larger plan, which might have been helped along with a more dynamic set.

Whimsical program of French symphonic and operatic works opens the CSO's "French Reveries and Passions" festival.

Gounod's Faust returns after 45 years to the National Dutch Opera, and this new production directed by Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, lead by a fine cast and conducted by Marc Minkowski is nothing short of spectacular.

Bouleversante Symphonie n° 3 de Mahler à la Philharmonie de Paris, avec le chef Esa-Pekka Salonen et l'Orchestre de Paris. 

À l'Opéra Garnier, le conte de Rossini est assombri par la mise en scène de Guillaume Gallienne. On se rattrape avec la production dans laquelle se distingue Marianne Crebassa, éblouissante dans le rôle-titre.

Le chef d'orchestre Raphaël Pichon et le metteur en scène Aurélien Bory sont à la tête d'une nouvelle production éblouissante salle Favart.

Lange hat man Mozart in Salzburg nicht mehr so mitreißend erlebt. Mit dem neuen Titus gelingt Neo-Intendant Markus Hinterhäuser ein Coup, der erhoffen lässt, dass sich Salzburg einer neuen goldenen Ära entgegenbewegt.

Imprégné de la poésie du spectacle, on ne quitte pas le théâtre sans avoir envie d’en fredonner ou siffloter les mélodies.

Qu'on le veuille ou non, jouer le requiem de Mozart est devenu un acte politique. Instruments anciens ou instruments modernes ? Faut-il opter pour Süssmayr – un choix manifestement sûr – ou tenter, au risque de se faire huer des extrémistes, Robbins Landon, voire la version de Rio ? La réponse de Bertrand de Billy dans cet article.

Jürgen Flimms Produktion unterstreicht die frech-fröhlich-Mozartschen Züge der Figuren der spielfreudigen Besetzung.

De Gluck à Massenet, on plonge avec délice dans l’histoire de l’opéra français.