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Vienna

Blending magic with loss: Herheim’s reimagined Amahl at MusikTheater an der Wien

By Chanda VanderHart, 17 December 2022

There is magic aplenty in director Stefan Herheim’s bold recontextualization of Gian Carlo Menotti's holiday opera.

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Vienna

17 Dec 2022

Blending magic with loss: Herheim’s reimagined Amahl in Vienna

By Chanda VanderHart

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Venice

Méphistophélès returns to the stage in Gounod’s Faust at La Fenice!

By Laura Servidei, 30 April 2022

The Teatro La Fenice reprises Joan Anton Rechi’s production in its full stage version, less inspiring than the one expanded through the whole theatre during Covid times.

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Venice

30 Apr 2022

Méphistophélès returns to the stage in Gounod’s Faust at La Fenice!

By Laura Servidei

Munich

Hasse’s Artaserse in Munich: an unusual pasticcio

By Sandra Bowdler, 15 May 2018

Hasse’s Artaserse in Munich was a pasticcio using music from that work to tell the story of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth and to celebrate of Anja Silja.

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Munich

15 May 2018

Hasse’s Artaserse in Munich: an unusual pasticcio

By Sandra Bowdler

Budapest

Keeping Up with the Prussians: an homage to Wilhelmine von Bayreuth with Hasse's Artaserse

By Orsolya Gyárfás, 21 April 2018

In a pasticcio of Hasse’s Artaserse and Ezio, director Balázs Kovalik and the students of the Theaterakademie August Everding stage the life of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth.

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Budapest

21 Apr 2018

An homage to Wilhelmine von Bayreuth with Hasse's Artaserse

By Orsolya Gyárfás

Leipzig

Mixed success for Leipzig's futuristic Turandot

By Hugo Shirley, 22 October 2016

Balázs Kovalik's new dystopian Turandot is musically rousing but let down by a production that's more 1970s TV series than slick modern sci-fi.

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Leipzig

22 Oct 2016

Mixed success for Leipzig's futuristic Turandot

By Hugo Shirley

Leipzig

Marble and grit in Strauss’ 'problem child' in Leipzig

By Mark Pullinger, 12 June 2014

For an inventive production, fine singing and magnificent orchestral playing, this new Leipzig Die Frau ohne Schatten deserves every success.

Leipzig

12 Jun 2014

Die Frau ohne Schatten in Leipzig

By Mark Pullinger