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The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra gives a patrician performance of Verdi’s Macbeth and Scott Hendricks is riveting in Andrea Breth’s claustrophobic exploration of oppression and derangement.

A successful production for a scandalous opera which exercised a broad influence on the musical theatre of the 20th century.

Mozart wrote 20 operas during his relatively short life, the first being performed in Salzburg in 1767, when the composer was just eleven years old. However, it is Idomeneo, written and premièred when Mozart was the ripe old age of 25, which is usually considered to be his first mature opera.The opera takes place on the island of Crete immediately after the Trojan War.

Rigoletto is what an opera promoter might describe as a "banker": it's a safe bet to get those seats filled and keep the audience happy. There's a rare blend of gorgeously beautiful music allied to darkly nasty drama that gives the opera enormous, continuing appeal.

Tobias Kratzer inszeniert Verdis La forza del destino als schockierende und unbequeme Gesellschaftskritik.

Macbeth de Verdi revient sur les planches toulousaines plus de 20 ans après sa dernière représentation dans une magnifique coproduction.

Renaissance trifft Moderne, trifft Industriezeitalter. Der Münchner Holländer hat schrille Kontraste zu bieten, bevor er schließlich mit krachender Pyrotechnik endet.

Glücklich, wer ein Taschentuch zur Hand hatte - die historische Produktion von La bohème an der Bayerischen Staatsoper ist auch nach fast 50 Jahren noch so ergreifend wie eh und je.

Stehende Ovationen für hochklassige musikalische Leistungen in Dmitri Tcherniakovs Produktion.