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Christof Loy and Carlo Rizzi score a great success in bringing Respighi’s rarely performed opera the Deutsche Oper Berlin. 

Dutch National Opera revives Pierre Audi's acclaimed Die Walküre for the very last time.

Amidst mixed vocal performances, competent orchestral playing and spectacular staging, Guanqun Yu took the limelight as a devout and sincere Liù.

This was a performance that had you lickng your lips for Santi’s return next season with Zeffirelli’s time-honoured take on Aida.

San Francisco Opera's Turandot is a feast for the eyes and ears, but the drama falls flat.

This Paris production of The Snow Maiden proves that director Dmitri Tcherniakov is today's greatest champion of Rimsky-Korsakov's operas. 

The second opera of the Ring Cycle in Vienna brought the best out of the orchestra and singers with a sweeping and breath taking reading of the score by Sir Simon Rattle.

The aftermath of an unfortunate tug of war between love and lust entwined in a city gripped by enemy occupation, Tosca’s story digs deep into the human heart. 

Nathaniel Merrill’s production of Der Rosenkavalier opened at the Metropolitan Opera on 23 January 1969. Richard Nixon had been sworn in as President as the United States only a few days earlier. It is still in the repertory today, here revived with Edward Gardner conducting.

Love and death are the two basic ingredients of the standard opera plot, and the more tragedy involved from the first to the last, the more likely it is to spur composers to set it to magnificent music. Andrea Chénier is a textbook example of this although it is not anywhere near as popular as La traviata, Carmen or La bohème, and explicably so.

In last night’s performance of Die Walküre at the Met, Martina Serafin as Sieglinde and Simon O’Neill as Siegmund drew us completely into the process of two people falling into illicit love.

Puccini’s Tosca is no stranger to the stages of Paris. With almost 300 performances of this opera to date at the Opéra National de Paris, Tosca has become, alongside Mozart’s Le Nozze de Figaro and Bizet’s Carmen, a staple of Paris’ opera houses.However, such popularity opens up challenges.

Calixto Bieitos Neuinszenierung liefert viel Schatten, aber auch Glanzlichter.

Gelungene Haus- und Rollendebüts sowie ein nuancenreiches Orchester tragen zu einer ganz besonderen Walküre bei.

En guise d'ouverture de saison à l'Opéra de Paris, le Tristan de Peter Sellars et Bill Viola laisse les wagnériens sur leur faim, malgré un grand Philippe Jordan.

Ein lauer Konzertabend mit 100% Wagner und guter Besetzung des ersten Aufzugs der Walküre bescheren ein schöne Sommernacht im niederösterreichischen Grafenegg.

Selbst bei kurzfristigen Absagen weiß es die Staatsoper einen „gewöhnlichen“ Repertoireabend zum Glänzen zu bringen.

Cinq ans après sa création au Teatro alla Scala, l’Opéra de Paris accueille pour dix représentations (avec une double distribution) la production de Lohengrin mise en scène par Claus Guth. Dire que ce Lohengrin était attendu relève de la litote. Ce spectacle marque le grand retour sur scène de Jonas Kaufmann, après quelque quatre mois d’absence et d’inquiétudes. L’effervescence en ce mercredi soir était donc à son comble.

Se presenta en el Liceu Macbeth en la fantástica producción de Christof Loy, con un recuperado Tézier debutando en el papel de Macbeth y Serafin en el rol de la pérfida esposa. Una velada que sienta un buen inicio de temporada.

Martina Serafin y Ambrogio Maestri, junto a la heterodoxa pero efectivísima versión de Daniel Oren, cumplieron con su cometido acompañados por un coro que supo afrontar el reto que supone esta ópera para cualquier conjunto.

À travers la nouvelle mise en scène de Pierre Audi, l'oeuvre de Puccini prend une dimension singulièrement symbolique. Le tout servi par une distribution remarquable.