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Shortened and simplified to adapt to restrictions, David Bösch's 2016 production succeeds in bringing Mozart's brilliant opera to a modern setting with a splendid cast of singers.

Barenboim conducts Otto Nicolai's Falstaff opera with a warmth and affection that is sorely lacking on stage. 

Saioa Hernández leads a solid cast in Dresden in a somewhat disappointing new production by David Bösch.

Michael Volle and Klaus Florian Vogt demonstrate that they are indeed master singers in Munich, despite adversity, in a revival of David Bösch's contemporary production.

In a score that can be a Technicolor wallow, Jurowski’s sure sense of dramatic pulse and balance, encompassed the brash dance rhythms, religious grandeur, vivid tone painting and the extremes of dissonance.

At its local Antwerp première, David Bösch’s new production of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane makes it the only house ever to have mounted twice.

Iain Paterson's house debut as the Holländer was sufficient reason to drop anchor in the Main for this revival of David Bösch's 2015 production. 

An outstanding Azucena and solid vocal and orchestral performances more than make up for David Bösch's unappealing staging.

The Marx Brothers famously sent up Verdi's middle period masterpiece in A Night at the Opera and if Bösch doesn't exactly send up Trovatore's corrosive cocktail of infanticide, jealousy and vengeance, he undermines it with his staging.

The singing is the main attraction in Dutch National Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro, but this new production is also entertaining and looks good enough to eat.

Francesco Meli asserts his credentials as one of the top tenors singing Manrico; David Bösch's staging lacks attention to detail.

If you let yourself be transported to director David Bösch’s strange world, you'll find an Elisir d'amore that is heartbreaking and uplifting by turns.

Pale ghostly faces, flowers in heaven and a spell binding Christian Gerhaher: Munich celebrates Monteverdi's Orfeo.

Mozart wrote the opera seria Mitridate at the age of fifteen. The Bayerische Staatsoper’s clever and strangely beautiful production positions it as the work of a child, full of rebellious teenagers and projected scenery seemingly drawn from a primary school art class.

Das Bayerische Staatsorchester unter Kirill Petrenko bereitet mit Wagners Meistersingern einen musikalisch denkwürdigen Abend.

Die Bayerische Staatsoper legt bei der Neuinszenierung von Bedřich Smetanas komischer Oper den Fokus auf ein unterhaltsames Dorffest-Idyll.

Un Don Giovanni de haute volée porté par un Simon Keenlyside impérial, dans une mise en scène sombre mais d’une efficacité redoutable.

Kriegsfolgen, Flüchtlinge und Vater-Sohn-Konflikte: David Bösch inszeniert am Nürnberger Staatstheater Mozarts Idomeneo als bildermächtiges und bewegungsreiches antikes Drama. 

Accourez au grand théâtre voir et entendre cette belle production de Cosi fan tutte qui loin d’être parfaite, rassemble une belle équipe qui joue et offre le plaisir d’un Mozart juvénile et frais, dominé par les interventions tant musicales que scéniques de la Despina de Monica Bacelli et du Guglielmo de Vittorio Prato.   

Die Bayerische Staatsoper hat Richard Wagners Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg unter großen Staraufgebot als Sängerfest inszeniert und auf eine ideenschwangere Inszenierung verzichtet

L’Alcina genevoise de Nicole Cabell est à elle seule une raison suffisante pour courir entendre ce magnifique opéra d’un Haendel servi par un Orchestre de la Suisse Romande qui se révèle plus baroqueux qu’on ne pouvait l’augurer. On passera sur une mise en scène un peu morne et une distribution un brin hétéroclite.