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10 Days in a Madhouse is a musically and dramatically excellent but disturbing insight into conditions in a women’s asylum brought to life in Toronto by an excellent production.

Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-winning production of Handel’s Partenope returns to the Coliseum, but it's the singing that earns the plaudits. 

In this world-premiere work, which opens Opera Philadelphia's Festival O23, composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch dramatize and deconstruct the true story of Nellie Bly's commitment to a mental asylum.

The Zurich opera house launches a novel production of Stefan Wirth's new opera in three movements based on the popular 1999 novel by Tracy Chevalier. 

An emotional work, structured like a strident television documentary tailored to a young audience.

Verdi and Schiller lose out to Barbora Horáková in a new staging for English National Opera. 

A remarkable opera about Alzheimer’s mesmerizes audience thanks to two extraordinary women “d’un certain age”.

The team of soloists, the chorus and the orchestra, under the baton of Philippe Auguin, powerfully conveyed the spectacular qualities of Verdi's Don Carlo.

Christopher Alden's account of Handel's love pentangle is long on Man Ray imagery and modern language wordplay, but never hits the vocal highs and eventually palls.

Some very fine singing and beautiful, if sometimes confusing, visual effects in Opera Philadelphia's Don Carlo.  

Director Christopher Alden's charming Partenope slinks its Surrealist way into San Francisco.

La direction enthousiasmante de Wayne Marshall et les qualités de la distribution ne suffisent pas à compenser une mise en scène creuse, qui ne fait pas honneur à la fantaisie de l'œuvre de Bernstein.

Ted Huffmans Neuproduktion präsentiert ganz minimalistisch eine Zauberflöte zwischen Traum und Altersflucht.

Christopher Alden trae al Teatro Real de Madrid una Parténope al estilo art decó dinámica de la que supo exprimir toda su comicidad.

Présenté en création française dans le cadre du Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, l'opéra de Venables et Huffman déçoit par son aspect répétitif et peu lyrique.