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At the start of his farewell to Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles shines with his orchestra, supplying the passion and tension withheld in Michael Thalheimer’s production.

Adela Zaharia is cast as a Violetta for whom the party never stops in this revival of Tatjana Gürbaca's busy staging at Dutch National Opera. 

The first premiere of the new Staatsoper season is a qualified success, led by Eleanora Buratto's superb Suor Angelica and Ambrogio Maestri's masterly Gianni Schicchi in Puccini's triptych of one-act operas. 

Director Tatjana Gürbaca and Czech conductor Tomáš Netopil deliver a “Romantic” Kátya Kabanová from the Grand Théâtre de Genève at Brno’s Janáček Festival.

Zurich Opera stages Tatjana Gürbaca’s production of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. True to the opera buffa genre, it teems with silliness.

Ligeti's “anti-anti opera” opens in Zurich in a new production by Tatjana Gürbaca. 

Hagen, the first chapter in the Theater an der Wien's reimagining of The Ring, features music from Das Rhinegold and Götterdämmerung woven seamlessly together, telling the story from the perspective of Hagen, son of Nibelung dwarf, Alberich.

Tatjana Gürbaca’s whole scale tampering with Wagner’s Siegfried had so many flashbacks and flashforwards there should have been a warning for photosensitive members of the audience.  

Celebrating a courageous woman who is able to secure the release of her husband from prison, Beethoven’s sole opera Fidelio has music that is more compelling that its plot.

Even forty years after its world première in Rotterdam, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s new production of Philip Glass’s three-act opera in Basel has particularly timely relevance.

A fascinating, psychologically penetrating reading of Verdi’s penultimate opera, performed to the highest standards, promises much for the new season at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. 

Andreas Homoki’s new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I puritani wows with a quartet of stellar vocalists, but its awkward staging and set design are a distinct disappointment.

The unclear ideas and the excessive blackness in Thalheimer’s concept failed to convince, but Stoyanov and Joel’s presentation of Verdi’s score made up for those problems.

Tatyana Gürbaca's new production of La traviata in Oslo may be on the heavy-handed side, but still offers fascinating new insights into Verdi's opera.

67-year-old diva Edita Gruberova presents a devastating portrayal of a desperate mother supported by a strong cast in a stark modern production.

La mise en scène de Michael Thalheimer, la direction musicale de Mark Elder, le décor, les lumières, la distribution : tout concourt ici à produire une soirée prodigieuse.

Furrer neues Musiktheaterstück handelt vom Schicksal eines indigenen Anführers in Argentinien. Die szenische Umsetzung von Tatjana Gürbaca ist erstaunlich zurückhaltend in der Deutung. Furrers Musik fasziniert in ihrer suggestiven Kraft.

Zum ersten Mal ist an der Oper Graz Hector Berlioz’ Grand opéra zu hören; musikalisch gelingt dem Haus damit ein großer Wurf.

Ein emotionaler Abend angeführt von Elena Stikhina und Philippe Jordan am Pult des Staatsopernorchesters, an dem kein Auge trocken bleibt.

La mise en scène riche en hémoglobine de Michael Thalheimer est en partie compensée par une distribution globalement convaincante, Tareq Nazmi en tête dans le rôle-marathon de Gurnemanz.

Dans le chef-d'œuvre de Janáček globalement bien servi par la distribution, la mise en scène de Tatjana Gürbaca fait le pari judicieux d’un jeu psychologique pur, malgré quelques limites.

La production genevoise est d’abord un grand moment de théâtre, auquel s'ajoutent la direction musicale convaincante de Tomáš Hanus et une belle distribution, emmenée par une Corinne Winters impeccable.

La mise en scène de Michael Thalheimer va à l’essentiel dans Macbeth, dernière production du mandat d'Aviel Cahn à la tête de l’Opéra de Flandre.

Edita Gruberová und Juan Diego Flórez brillieren in Christof Loys Inszenierung von Donizettis Familiendrama.

Capriccio in einer klugen, herausfordernden Inszenierung und in hervorragender Besetzung - ein Ereignis.