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In Jussi Wieler and Sergio Morabito’s pugilistic production of Ariodante, the singers needed as much physical and gymnastic dexterity as vocal finesse.

Although a British composer by birth, Rebecca Saunders is most respected in Germany, where she has spent much of her working life. Her latest project was an immersive choreographed programme with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie based around her violin concerto still. 

Visual references both incongruous and perceptive abound in the third instalment of Bayreuth's musically triumphant Ring cycle.

Excellent singing and a stunning debut win out over relentlessly clever visual effects.

With this mesmerising version of Les contes d'Hoffmann, Marthaler has proved (as Offenbach did more than one century ago) that it is possible to love Romanticism through its satire. 

The opening of the Teatro Real’s season in Madrid has been anything but uneventful. However, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the ever-pleasing opera chosen to welcome back an expectant audience, had very little to do with it.

Donné en version de concert abrégée, l'opéra de Haendel bénéficie d'une distribution vocale très solide, dans laquelle se distingue la mezzo-soprano Diana Haller.

Le Grand Théâtre de Genève propose une version des Huguenots satisfaisante musicalement mais desservie, hélas, par une lecture scénique dont on cherche en vain les clés.

Belcanto vom Feinsten sorgt an der Grazer Oper für einen packenden Abend; die Inszenierung eröffnet neue Blickwinkel auf Lucias tragisches Schicksal.

Jossi Wieler und Sergio Morabito zeigen die psychologische Tiefe Don Pasquales.

Arriesgada y deliciosa recreación humorística de la obra mozartiana en clave de cine mudo, lejos de cualquier simbología o pretensión de profundidad

Niccolò Jommellis Oper Il Vologeso war vor ca. 250 Jahren am württembergischen Hoftheater in Ludwigsburg uraufgeführt worden und dann von den Bühnen verschwunden. Nun feiert sie in Stuttgart unter dem Titel Berenike, Königin von Armenien eine umjubelte Auferstehung.