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Calixto Bieito’s circus opens the Rossini Opera Festival: vocal triumphs in Zelmira

By Laura Servidei, 10 August 2025

A production where vocal brilliance battles directorial gimmicks in Pesaro, with a superb cast led by Anastasia Bartoli and Lawrence Brownlee.

***11

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Pesaro

10 Aug 2025

Calixto Bieito’s Zelmira opens the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei

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Prague

Reimann's Lear makes for a dark season finale at Prague State Opera

By Frank Kuznik, 07 June 2025

Aribert Reimann's Lear takes no prisoners in a disturbing portrayal of a world gone awry, but Barbora Horáková's scattergun direction adds to the confusion.

***11

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Prague

07 Jun 2025

Reimann's Lear makes for a dark season finale at Prague State Opera

By Frank Kuznik

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Berlin

Death Becomes Him: Haas' Thomas gets a new staging in Berlin

By Elena Luporini, 25 June 2023

In a new production for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, director Barbora Horáková and conductor Max Renne guide the audience through Georg Friedrich Haas' deep reflection on death.

****1

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Berlin

25 Jun 2023

Death Becomes Him: Haas' Thomas gets a new staging in Berlin

By Elena Luporini

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Prague

Muddled Mozart: a new Figaro in Prague

By Frank Kuznik, 09 June 2023

Barbora Horáková's imaginative updating of The Marriage of Figaro sags under its own weight at the Estates Theatre, Prague.

***11

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Prague

09 Jun 2023

Muddled Mozart: a new Figaro in Prague

By Frank Kuznik

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Berlin

Spinning the Wheel of Fortune: Vivaldi's Il Giustino at the Staatsoper Berlin

By Elena Luporini, 20 November 2022

A new production of Vivaldi's Byzantine opera Il Giustino charms Berlin, thanks to René Jacobs' exemplary conducting and a top-level cast led by Christophe Dumaux.

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Berlin

20 Nov 2022

Spinning the Wheel of Fortune: Vivaldi's Il Giustino in Berlin

By Elena Luporini

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Prague

Singing the blues at the Prague State Opera

By Frank Kuznik, 26 November 2021

Director Barbora Horáková Joly and conductor Jiří Rožeň offer a fresh take on a pair of 20th-century psychodramas.

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Prague

26 Nov 2021

Singing the blues at the Prague State Opera

By Frank Kuznik

London

Love, intrigue… and black paint-play: Luisa Miller at ENO

By Mark Pullinger, 12 February 2020

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

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London

12 Feb 2020

Love, intrigue… and black paint-play: Luisa Miller at ENO

By Mark Pullinger

Basel

Hailing from No-man’s land: Pelléas et Mélisande in Basel

By Sarah Batschelet, 28 September 2018

Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande emerges from an almost transcendent realm and creates a languorous atmosphere, even if it leaves some questions unanswered and realities unexplored.

****1

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Basel

28 Sep 2018

Hailing from No-man’s land: Pelléas et Mélisande in Basel

By Sarah Batschelet

Lyon

Respighi rarity a riotous romp at Opéra de Lyon

By Jonathan Sutherland, 09 February 2018

L’Opéra de Lyon’s new production of Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco was an operatic pastiche with fairy tale fantasy and foxtrots thrown in for good measure.

***11

***11

Lyon

09 Feb 2018

Respighi rarity a riotous romp at Opéra de Lyon

By Jonathan Sutherland

Oslo

Keeping up appearances: Pelléas et Mélisande finally receives its Norwegian première

By Aksel Tollåli, 07 April 2017

After over a century, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande finally received its Norwegian première in a fascinating production by Barbora Horáková Joly.

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Oslo

07 Apr 2017

Keeping up appearances: Pelléas et Mélisande

By Aksel Tollåli

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Vienna

O zittre nicht... auch wenn es spukt: Barbora Horákovás Zauberflöte an der Wiener Staatsoper

By Snapdragon, 30 January 2025

Die Regisseurin Barbora Horáková hat reichlich Ideen und stellt das Leben an sich in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Neuinszenierung. Leider kann Die Zauberflöte musikalisch da nicht mithalten.

***11

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Vienna

30 Jan 2025

O zittre nicht... auch wenn es spukt: eine neue Zauberflöte in Wien

By Snapdragon

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Vienna

Alpiner Verismo-Thriller: La Wally am Theater an der Wien

By Isabella Steppan, 12 November 2021

Bei der umjubelten Premiere von Alfredo Catalanis selten gespieltem Werk beeindruckten insbesondere Izabela Matula in der Titelrolle und der unverschämt schön klingende Arnold Schönberg Chor.

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Vienna

12 Nov 2021

Alpiner Verismo-Thriller: La Wally am Theater an der Wien

By Isabella Steppan

Hanover

Schaumgebremste Erotik: Carmen an der Staatsoper Hannover

By Rainer Zerbst, 10 November 2020

Bizets Oper erhält durch die reduzierte Partitur von Marius Felix Lange eine neue faszinierende Ebene.

***11

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Hanover

10 Nov 2020

Schaumgebremste Erotik: Carmen an der Staatsoper Hannover

By Rainer Zerbst