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Aribert Reimann's Lear takes no prisoners in a disturbing portrayal of a world gone awry, but Barbora Horáková's scattergun direction adds to the confusion. 

A memorable, impassioned performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder in Disney Hall. 

Oxford Lieder's theme may be 'Winter into Spring', but in Schubert’s Winterreise, snow lies deep throughout with nary a glimpse of warmer prospects.

As part of its Schubert Festival, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal wowed the audience with a concert that featured excerpts from Rossini operas as well as two Schubert symphonies.

Heart Chamber explores how small outer events often correspond to tectonic inner changes.

Few composers have made such a notable impact in setting the St Luke Passion narrative, and this impressive performance under an inspired Vladimir Jurowski made clear its relevance today.

A declamatory Bruckner Te Deum made up for a less exciting first half of Barry and Mahler. 

Strauss' 'conversation piece' of an opera is given a warmly sympathetic production with the musical rewards coming as much from the pit as the stage.

A beautiful and thought-provoking association of Lieder and cinema, which nonetheless remains difficult to decipher. 

Unsuk Chin's opera Alice in Wonderland is performed by the Los Angeles Philarharmonic, conducted by Susanna Mälkki. This is no Disney movie! 

A German Requiem and two German composers sounds like your standard concert menu, but this concert was an interesting juxtaposition of two very different halves, the first filled by German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s little-heard Ecclesiastical Action, and the second by the much-loved, much-performed German Requiem by Brahms.

Ein auf allen Ebenen aufgehendes Regiekonzept Schumachers traf auf die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin unter Hofstetter, die auch einen Knaller nach dem nächsten gestaltete.

Alte Musik im neuen Style brachte Fetish Baroque in die Grazer Helmut-Liste-Halle; und begeisterte damit das Publikum.

Dans cette nouvelle production quasi monochrome signée Damiano Michieletto, La Monnaie dévoile un Rosenkavalier magnifiquement mélancolique, porté par la direction d'Alain Altinoglu.

Zum großen Jubiläum veranstaltete das Ensemble ein spezielles Bachfestival in Utrecht, das am Eröffnungsabend nicht origineller und unterhaltsamer hätte beginnen können.

L'opéra de Korngold se dévoile à La Monnaie dans une mise en scène grandiose de Mariusz Treliński, mêlant le cauchemar et la perversion à la tendresse et à la rédemption.

Retour de Romeo Castellucci à La Monnaie, pour une Flûte enchantée attendue avec impatience. On s'attendait à une mise en scène non conventionnelle. On fut servi.