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The director drains the life out of an impassioned opera with a staging devoid of authenticity and ideas.

Directors Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský, who work together as SKUTR, take on Dvořák’s Rusalka with a surfeit of ideas. 

Superb singing and brilliant work in the pit can't quite rescue Jiří Nekvasil's overambitious production.

Aided by spirited singers and enthusiastic musicians, director Ondřej Havelka brings an imaginative, ironic touch to a lesser-known Smetana opera.

The Prague National Theatre serves up a bright finish to its insightful, troubling tour of interwar music. 

Adding a prequel to Gianni Schicchi mostly proves that a prequel isn't necessary... 

The Spanish director's emotionally-sapped staging for the Prague National Theatre travels to Brno for the Janáček Festival.

“An eye for an eye, a kiss for a kiss,” declares Madeleine in the knock-down battle of the sexes that is Paul Abraham's rarely staged operetta. 

Powerful visuals can't compensate for an otherwise empty production of Janáček’s gripping tragedy.

Franz Schreker's innovative study of artistic aspiration and despair gets a fresh look and loving musical treatment.

A talented cast labors under the yoke of a gender-conscious Così fan tutte in a new production at the Estates Theatre. 

Slovak director Zuzana Gilhuus' serendipitous production could hardly be more timely.

The National Theater takes a bold step forward with a smart realization of a literary grotesquerie.

Tradition and modernity are a mismatch in this uneven production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece.

The National Theatre opens its new season with a Verdi favorite short on substance but lovely to hear.

Whilst the spirit of Mozart permeates the Estates Theatre in Prague, it was sadly absent in both the staging and singing of his “work of uninterrupted perfection”.  

The National Theatre in Prague should be the second-best place in the world to see Leoš Janáček's charming opera The Cunning Little Vixen. But its current production, new in the repertoire this season, is such a disappointment.