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Timo Riihonen and Ester Pavlů stand out in a strong cast which carries Andreas Homoki's revised version of Wagner's final opera.

Directors Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský, who work together as SKUTR, take on Dvořák’s Rusalka with a surfeit of ideas. 

Claus Guth's staging walks a line between atmosphere and audacity, in a powerful company achievement from Latvian National Opera.

The National Theater revives Jaromír Weinberger opera Schwanda the Bagpiper with energy, affection and overly active imagination.

All the energy is in the pit in this flat production of a time-honored favorite.

Pietari Inkinen conducts the Prague Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's monumental Third Symphony. 

José Cura shines as a designer but brings surprisingly little staging expertise to his latest directorial effort.

Tobias Kratzer deutet Weinbergers Oper radikal neu und holt den böhmischen Märchenwald mit einem bestens disponierten Sängerensemble erfolgreich in die Wiener Gegenwart. 

In einer bunten und temporeichen Inszenierung bietet die Grazer Oper bei Weinbergers Werk nicht nur musikalische Qualität, sondern auch ausgezeichnete Unterhaltung.