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Tobias Kratzer's prelude to this new Ring cycle exceeds all expectations and scores a musical-theatrical success.

The world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's Melancholie des Widerstands at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden marks the birth of a new genre – the film-opera – starring conductor Marie Jacquot and Philippe Jaroussky. 

Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production. 

What does opera in the 21st century look and sound like? Streets removed from anything Mozart, Verdi or Wagner would have recognised. But Salvatore Sciarrino is his own man.

A superb cast of singers is let down by Christoph Marthaler's cold, stilted staging as Reimann's Lear returns to its birthplace.  

Stefan Herheim's eagerly awaited production of Berg's Wozzeck distances us from the emotional heart of the tragedy by portraying the story as a hallucinatory death-room experience.

An uncompromising approach to the unfinished score of Berg's opera results in a compelling musical and dramatic interpretation.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov gives us a frightening new reality of the modern world beset by war and terrorism in his reimagining of Strauss's Salome

Cardillac has a spooky, sinister fascination that both intrigues and horrifies and which is quite successfully expressed in this striking production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf.

Smetana wrote Prodaná nevěsta (“The Bartered Bride”) as a light Czech folk piece in a playful reply to critics who said that his music was too Wagnerian, or too German for that matter – something not compatible with the growing Czech national consciousness in the period he composed it (1863–66), even though he only showed mild interest in the Czech cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s life was not that of an isolated contemplative but rather full of personal frustration, eventually ending in syphilitic madness. While his work has been often linked with music--most notably in his relationship with Wagner and Richard Strauss’s tone poem based on Also sprach Zarathustra--making his life into an opera may seem a dubious proposition.

Tobias Kratzers Rheingold bildet den krönenden Abschluss der Münchener Opernfestspiele – eine Inszenierung, die jetzt schon als Meilenstein gelten kann.

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

Diese Reise ist musikalisch und gestisch ein Muss für jeden, der eindringliche musikalische Gestaltung auf der Bühne liebt.

Sergej Newskis Neukomposition wird mit Mussorgskys Oper in einer effektvollen Produktion verwoben.

Regisseur Marco Štorman inszeniert einen Abend, der ganz aus dem Geist von Adams' Musik lebt.

Nonobstant un contexte social lyonnais très marqué par la grève, y compris à l’Opéra, on finit par accéder à la fête : légèreté, sens de la répartie, pétillantes envolées lyriques et chorégraphiques – voilà comment se présente la Nuit à Venise du « Roi de la Valse », Johann Strauss fils, à l'Opéra de Lyon.

Die Bayerische Staatsoper präsentiert Alban Bergs Oper Lulu mit einem perfekt auf einander abgestimmten Ensemble, bei dem insbesondere Marlis Petersen als Lulu und Dirigent Kirill Petrenko überzeugen.