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The Zurich opera house launches a novel production of Stefan Wirth's new opera in three movements based on the popular 1999 novel by Tracy Chevalier. 

Berg, unlike his teacher Schoenberg, didn't throw out the baby with the bathwater; Bruckner too never forgot his traditional roots. The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Paavo Järvi and Laura Aikin demonstrate.

Fine orchestral sound and outstanding solo singing from Sarah Connolly and Steve Davislim aren't enough to compensate for poor balance and timing in Beethoven's great choral work.

Jürgen Flimm bowed out of his role as Intendant of the Berlin State Opera with the German premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo.

The work takes its inspiration from the life of the little known Italian composer Alessandro Stradella who ended his life stabbed by killers sent by the husbands of his innumerable mistresses.

Iván Fischer's minimalist staging of Don Giovanni makes a triumphant return to Mupa, Budapest.

Deutsche Oper Berlin present an eclectic concert in celebration of the life and career of composer Aribert Reimann.

It took Vienna State Opera almost 90 years to present Leos Janacek's Věc Makropulos, but in Peter Stein's production, it was worth the wait.

Tonight's setting of Die Soldaten in a WWI stable is so sordid you can almost feel the rats gnawing. Alvis Hermanis was right to warn in a newspaper interview that we would leave the theatre feeling shocked.

As a very generous birthday present for ‘Accrington’s Finest’, Harrison Birtwistle, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martin Brabbins pulled out all the stops to give a revelatory performance of the composer’s most Wagnerian opera, Gawain.

Let’s be clear: this was a performance of the highest order. From the first five notes of the overture, the sixteen-member orchestra Armonia Aténéa led by George Petrou ravished the audience of the Salle Pleyel with Handel’s full splendour.

The German thinker Theodor Adorno once wrote that a musical setting of Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck, considered in its own literary right a masterpiece, may well have proved redundant.

Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte billed Don Giovanni a “dramma giocoso,” literally a “jocular drama,” and, unsurprisingly, finding the balance between comedy and drama is the key to any good production.

Événement à la Philharmonie avec la représentation du rare opéra de Bernd Alois Zimmermann, dans une mise en espace limitée de Calixto Bieito mais avec un plateau exceptionnel.

Kirill Serebrennikov inszeniert Schostakowitschs Oper als Polit-Revue und setzt damit richtungsweisende Akzente für die kommende Spielzeit unter dem neuen Intendanten Serge Dorny.

Manfred Trojahns Oper beginnt, wo Richard Strauss' endet: einmal noch wird Orest im Auftrag Elektras töten.

Keith Warner und das Theater an der Wien beweisen mit Elegie für junge Liebende ein weiteres Mal ihre hervorragende Zusammenarbeit.

Doppelpremiere: Pierrot Lunaire und Anna Toll oder die Liebe der Treue in Frankfurt – Avantgarde gegen Operetten-Kitsch?

Runnicles und sein Orchester bieten trotz fallender Blätter Sommerliches, aber auch Stilles, Metaphysisches und Poetisches im Matinee-Konzert.