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Hanna-Elisabeth Müller joined the visiting Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Unsuk Chin's surprising Puzzles and Games, derived from her opera Alice in Wonderland.

Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to Sven-Eric Bechtolf's lean but polished production with an outstanding cast, outstandingly conducted. 

Despite many perceptive details, Bayreuth's new Ring culminates in a rather damp squib of an ending.

Will Siegfried get his girl? Will she turn out to be his sister? And has the ultimate prize already got into the wrong hands? More posers from Bayreuth's intriguing new Ring.

The plot thickens as "episode two" of Bayreuth's new Ring muddies the waters of Siegfried’s paternity and Wotan comes to regret his actions.

The Bayreuth Festival's new Ring gets off to a promising start with a tautly directed Rheingold, but will we find out what it all means?

The performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin transcends Andreas Homoki's curious staging, redeemed by vocal and orchestral performances that shine in their nuanced artistry.

One of Japan’s leading orchestras, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, turned in performances of two warhorses as different as night and day. In between came a revelation in the form of a young cellist destined for greatness.

The Met's spectators love Mozart’s opera, but they deserve an updated staging.

If ever a new production of a Mozart opera had a riveting backstory, this one is it. 

The Temple of Opera has opened its doors to operetta. For the first time the Teatro alla Scala is staging Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus.

A superlative cast and perceptive staging make for a gripping revival of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival.

Juan Diego Flórez stars as Goethe’s archetypal Romantic poet in Massenet's Werther in Zurich. 

Captiavting European musical narratives in Washington DC.

In the ballad, a lovelorn maiden is finally reunited with her dead lover, who immediately tries to trick her into a midnight wedding at a graveyard after dragging her through muddy swamps filled with ghosts and howling animals. 

Fingers and bows fluttered through dance-like figures and virtuosic passages packed with trills with astonishing clarity and brilliance.

Though certainly not the most heartwarming of tales this Christmas season, this is a production one shouldn’t miss.

Within Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the darkest corners of the soul are exposed by music, stirred up by the lying, lecherous exploits of the aristocratic scoundrel, Don Giovanni.

The auditorium's lights flared up, drawing a blinking audience back into the room. The fourth wall was well and truly broken, and each of us was given no option but to acknowledge our responsibility for the planet.

With its latest incarnation of Die Zauberflöte, the Royal Opera ticks all the boxes in a strongly cast revival. 

Die Zauberflöte may well tell us something about the Human Condition, but its staging in Zurich serves more to distract from the music and the messages than it does to support them.

Ermonela Jaho gives an incomparable vocal acting performance; John Copley's production, 40 years old this year, never fails to enthrall. It's being retired after next season: catch it while you can, and remember to pack the handkerchiefs.

Erika Sunnegårdh’s Salome impresses in a revival of Peter Mussbach's striking production at the Dresden Semperoper. 

Jean Sibelius is purported to have written part of his Symphony no. 5 after having witnessed a large flock of swans take flight from his home in rural Finland. Whether this story is apocryphal or not, the “swan theme” has become part of the Western musical subconscious, with quotations showing up in jazz and pop music for much of the last century.

Cornelius Meister has long been a champion of young Czech composer Miroslav Srnka, not only as chief conductor of the RSO Wien but also in Heidelberg, where he was Generalmusikdirektor from 2005 until earlier this year.

Counting this present concert performance, public outings for Jaromir Weinberger’s 1937 opera Wallenstein may possibly have reached double digits, and such reception details, or indeed any information about the opera beyond a basic synopsis, would have made a welcome addition to the programme.

For a description of Elisabeth Leonskaja’s formidable and eloquent pianism I find myself drawn to the opening bars of Rachmaninov’s G sharp minor Prelude, given in this concert as an encore.

The German Requiem is an unbudgeable fixture on the Viennese musical calendar, and yet selections from Brahms’ more obscure choral output are seldom programmed, with chorus directors typically citing the unfeasible ratio of rehearsal to running time for complicated works like Nänie (which is less than 15 minutes long).

El director invitado Cornelius Meister y la joven solista Alexandra Dovgan transitaron brillantemente un camino de constelaciones junto a la Orquesta Nacional de España y la soprano Vera-Lotte Boecker.

An der Staatsoper Stuttgart kommt Mozarts Idomeneo zwar in schönen Bildern, aber leider weitgehend unter Verzicht auf Interpretation auf die Bühne. Die Bilanz der Sängerinnen und Sänger ist gemischt. Vollends zu überzeugen dagegen vermag das Dirigat von GMD Cornelius Meister.

Le Staatsoper Stuttgart a livré une splendide version de concert de l'œuvre de Strauss avec un Cornelius Meister remarquable à la baguette, un orchestre exemplaire et de très grands chanteurs.

Christof Loy convierte la fábula Rusalka en una sensible y fina escenificación de la discapacidad.

Der neue Stuttgarter Ring erfährt unter Regisseur Marco Štorman einen bilderreichen aber einfallslosen Abschluss.

Sven-Erich Bechtolfs Inszenierung und das Sängerensemble glänzen bei der Wiederaufnahme am Haus am Ring.

Obras del siglo XX conformaron una velada que nos guio por un sendero de sonoridades tardorrománticas, intimismo y brillo sinfónico al mismo tiempo.

Die Staatsoper Stuttgart präsentiert Die Walküre als Arbeit von drei unterschiedlichen Regiearbeiten.

Der neue Stuttgarter Ring startet mit einem szenisch viele Fragen aufwerfenden Rheingold. Doch das Orchester unter Cornelius Meister glänzt dafür umso mehr!

Rare lieu où des concerts publics ont encore lieu en Europe, Monte-Carlo accueillait Daniel Lozakovich et Cornelius Meister pour un programme romantique allemand de toute beauté.

Daniel Behle überzeugt als Lohengrin stimmlich und darstellerisch!

Andreas Kriegenburg inszeniert Hans Abrahamsens Oper als erstaunlich schlüssiges Beziehungsdrama aus der Psychiatrie.

Stephan Kimmig animiert mit seiner kritischen Inszenierung das Publikum zum Denken.

Schilling zeigt in seiner Neuinszenierung eine verunsicherte Gesellschaft, die in einer Zeit des zunehmenden Populismus sehr aktuell ist.

Un très beau concert à l'Auditorium de Lyon, en compagnie d'Edgar Moreau et de Cornelius Meister, animés par la même volonté de convaincre sans donner dans l’exubérance.

Die Zeichen standen gut für einen großen Mahler-Moment im Wiener Konzerthaus, doch es war Ernst Kreneks Erstes Violinkonzert, das den Abend rettete.

Beim Konzert des RSO Wien mit Nicolas Altstaedt im Wiener Konzerthaus war große Musik und große Unterhaltung geboten.

Bei der Jubiläumsserie der Ariadne auf Naxos an der Wiener Staatsoper will trotz teils starker Gesangsleistungen keine wirkliche Feierstimmung aufkommen.

Jochen Schmeckenbecher und das ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien unter der Leitung von Cornelius Meister gratulieren Friedrich Cerha musikalisch zum 90. Geburtstag.

Countertenor Andrew Watts und das ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien unter Leitung von Cornelius Meister präsentieren Werke von Gerhard E. Winkler und Olga Neuwirth.

Marisol Montalvo und das ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien unter Cornelius Meister eröffnen das diesjährige Wien Modern im Wiener Konzerthaus

Mercredi soir, l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande a donné à entendre une phalange en grande forme, sous la direction du tout jeune chef Cornelius Meister qui a su tirer le meilleur des artistes de l'orchestre romand !