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The Baden-Baden Easter Festival offers a memorable production of Pique Dame with excellent musical performances convincing in Leiser and Caurier's updating of the plot.

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Baden-Baden

13 Apr 2022

Outstanding performances in brothel-based Baden-Baden Pique Dame

By Ako Imamura

London

Hell is oneself: Don Giovanni returns to the Royal Opera in heavenly form

By Matthew Rye, 29 June 2018

A terrific cast takes on the latest revival of Kasper Holten’s video-infused staging of Mozart’s opera buffa.

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London

01 Jul 2018

Hell is oneself: Don Giovanni returns in heavenly form

By Matthew Rye

Glyndebourne

Strong ensemble cast gives fizz to Glyndebourne's touring Barber

By Nick Boston, 08 October 2017

A revival of Arden's 2016 production of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia is lifted by a strong ensemble cast for Glyndebourne's tour.

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Glyndebourne

09 Oct 2017

Strong ensemble cast gives fizz to Glyndebourne's touring Barber

By Nick Boston

Munich

Top class voices, powerful drama in Bayerische Staatsoper's Andrea Chénier

By David Karlin, 28 July 2017

With superb singing from Harteros, Salsi and Kaufmann, this production makes a strong case for Andrea Chénier’s continued presence in the repertoire.

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Munich

29 Jul 2017

Top voices, high drama in Andrea Chénier

By David Karlin

Munich

A slice of history painted in loving detail: the Bavarian State Opera’s Andrea Chénier

By Norman Schwarze, 22 March 2017

Anja Harteros shines in Umberto Giordano’s verismo opera, with a top class sound that trumps even Jonas Kaufmann’s comeback.

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Munich

25 Mar 2017

A detailed slice of history: Andrea Chénier

By Norman Schwarze

London

Beloved Friend: Bychkov's Tchaikovsky series closes with a provocative Pathétique

By Mark Pullinger, 28 October 2016

“Beloved Friend” is the term Tchaikovsky used to address Nadezhda in his letters, and it is the title Semyon Bychkov has given to his Tchaikovsky series, of which this concert with the BBCSO closed the Barbican leg.

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London

29 Oct 2016

Beloved Friend: a provocative Pathétique

By Mark Pullinger

Amsterdam

Caged bird: Tchaikovsky stars in Herheim's Pique Dame at Dutch National Opera

By Mark Pullinger, 09 June 2016

The role of the outsider struck a chord with Tchaikovsky, whose homosexuality alienated him from society. Stefan Herheim takes that identification as the central idea in his remarkable new production at Dutch National Opera.

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Amsterdam

10 Jun 2016

Caged bird: Tchaikovsky stars in Herheim's Pique Dame

By Mark Pullinger

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Berlin

Extraordinario monográfico de Stravinsky con Oksana Lyniv y miembros de la Filarmónica de Berlín

By Francisco Martínez Ramos, 25 September 2021

La directora ucraniana Oksana Lyniv y miembros de la Filarmónica de Berlín presentaron un magnífico concierto con obras de Igor Stravinsky.

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Berlin

26 Sep 2021

Extraordinario monográfico de Stravinsky de Oksana Lyniv

By Francisco Martínez Ramos

Munich

Premiere: Bayerische Staatsoper versetzt Un Ballo in Maschera ins 20. Jahrhundert

By Norman Schwarze, 09 March 2016

Die Bayerische Staatsoper inszeniert Verdis Un ballo in maschera in stummfilmhafter Eleganz und setzt dabei insbesondere auf ausdrucksstarke Stimmen.

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Munich

12 Mar 2016

Ballo im 20. Jahrhundert

By Norman Schwarze