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Through the Looking-Glass and What Senta Found There: Philipp Stözl’s Flying Dutchman arrives at MusikTheater an der Wien featuring a terrific cast led by Ambur Braid and Jordan Shanahan.

Klaus Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris give us an orchestral kaleidoscope, Kosky's pared-down staging allows the emotions of Strauss and Hofmannstahl's work to shine through.

Gustavo Gimeno and the TSO give a performance that’s both carefully thought out and very grand, aided by excellent soloists and the huge Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.

Shostakovich's opera is laid bare in Berlin, to devastating effect, with a distinguished cast led by Ambur Braid. 

William Kentridge's production of Berg’s Wozzeck has it all: wonderfully imaginative and disturbing designs, terrific acting and singing plus fabulous orchestral playing. 

Ambur Braid excels in the title role in the Canadian Opera Company’s starrily cast revival of Atom Egoyan's production.

A revival of Simon McBurney's 2013 production of The Magic Flute reaches new heights under Mark Wigglesworth's baton.

Opera Atelier espouses truth in advertising: The Magic Flute, they tell us, is a Singspiel in two acts. You can call it a play with songs, a musical comedy, even an operetta, but hardly an opera in the traditional sense. Call it what you will, this is Opera Atelier’s fourth production of the work in the last 22 years.

It took me a while to warm to director Christopher Alden’s revisionist production of Johann Strauss II’s chestnut and whipped cream torte of an operetta, but gradually the outrageous battiness of it won me over.The story that Alden and his team fashion into a Freudian farce with touches of Bram Stoker goes like this.

Diálogos de carmelitas entra a formar parte de los hitos programados por el Palau de Les Arts, de la mano de Robert Carsen y Riccardo Minasi.

Formidable dans le rôle-titre, Stéphane Degout emmène une très belle distribution, sous la baguette excellente de Daniele Rustioni et dans une mise en scène intelligente signée Richard Brunel.

Pour la première fois représenté dans la capitale des Gaules, l'opéra virtuose de Richard Strauss bénéficie d'une extraordinaire interprétation musicale qui vient compenser les limites de la mise en scène.

Sebastian Weigle beendet seine 15-jährige Zeit als GMD des Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchesters mit einer echten Frankfurter Rarität.

David Bösch monte une formidable nouvelle production d'Irrelohe de Franz Schreker, compositeur encore trop rarement joué. Sous la baguette habile de Bernhard Kontarsky, Ambur Braid se distingue dans le rôle d'Eva.

Die Oper Frankfurt startet mit einer fulminanten Wiederaufnahme von Bellinis Norma in die neue Spielzeit.

Poulencs bekannteste Oper wird zum ersten Mal an der Oper Frankfurt aufgeführt.

Ein Hauch von Nichts! Kein Kitsch, kein Orientalismus – Barrie Koskys Salome ist radikal reduziert!

Ernst Kreneks Kurzopern kehren nach der Auszeichnung zur Wiederentdeckung des Jahres 2018 zurück auf die Bühne der Oper Frankfurt.