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A sense of marvel and joy permeates this New Year's Day performance of Haydn's oratorio at Müpa, Budapest. 

Despite some fine young voices, a concert staging of The Rake's Progress proves problematic in Hamburg.

In the nearby city of Winterthur, Zurich’s fine International Opera Studio (IOS) recently premiered two short operas by Maurice Ravel, a flashy L’Heure espagnole and a lyrical L’Enfant et les sortilèges.

Men unfaithful out of habit? Sheer madness to trust a woman? These were the great themes of what has proven to be Mozart’s most popular opera.

Singers delight in a rare concert performance of Bellini's opera.

Opera director András Almási-Toth’s whimsical updating of an early Baroque opera by Antonio Cesti switches the composer’s L'Orontea from 1656 to 2016.

A reconstruction of a long-lost opera by Handel gives some exciting young singers the chance to shine at the London Handel Festival, even if the plot might be better back in the mists of obscurity. 

Musikalisch hochkarätig, szenisch problematisch und durch umfangreichen Balletteinsatz überlastet: Magdalena Fuchsbergers neue Alcina-Inszenierung am Gärtnerplatztheater in München.

Igor Strawinskys neobarocker moralistischer Bilderreigen wird in München als modernes Punk-Märchen erzählt.

Vor allem gesanglich ist die neue Besetzung von Brigitte Fassbaenders Inszenierung ein Fest.

Barbara Hannigan mène à la baguette cette production de The Rake's Progress à la Philharmonie, où brillent aussi bien les chanteurs du projet Equilibrium que les instrumentistes de l'Orchestre Ludwig.