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Eva-Maria Westbroek proves an outstanding Káťa in the Staatsoper's revival of Janáček's opera, powerfully conducted by Simon Rattle. 

Jephtha at the Halle Handel Festival subverts the text, and provides little in the way of dramatic or musical compensation.

Juan Diego Flórez stars as Goethe’s archetypal Romantic poet in Massenet's Werther in Zurich. 

Die Zauberflöte may well tell us something about the Human Condition, but its staging in Zurich serves more to distract from the music and the messages than it does to support them.

Rudolf Frey's production of Nabucco for Welsh National Opera undercuts the solemnity and beauty of the opera, detracting from some fine performances. 

Die Premiere von Franz Schrekers Oper Der ferne Klang am Nationaltheater Mannheim überzeugte mit einer gelungenen musikalischen Darbietung, war jedoch gewöhnungsbedürftig und eigenwillig inszeniert.