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Despite excellent performances from Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Elmina Hasan, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's new production of Norma lacks a pinch of salt. 

In a week where Vienna welcomes two new productions of Bellini's Norma, MusikTheater an der Wien sets a high bar with Vasily Barkhatov's staging. 

The Teatro di San Carlo opens its season with Vasily Barkhatov directing a Gen X mish-mash take on Puccini's final opera. 

Vasily Barkhatov directs a new production of Mieczysław Weinberg's rarely staged, massive and unwieldy opera at the MuseumsQuartier. 

Young soprano Cornelia Beskow impresses as Tatyana in an all-Swedish performance of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece.

In L’Invisible, which had its première last weekend at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Aribert Reimann has condensed three plays by Maeterlinck into bite-size chunks that vanish before they can be savoured.

Director Vasily Barkhatov’s production of Eugene Onegin travels to Darmstadt. 

Die Oper Frankfurt präsentiert eine weitere Rarität mit keiner geringeren als der international gefeierten Sopranistin Asmik Grigorian.

Das junge Ensemble des Theater an der Wien bringt Tommaso Traettas nur selten aufgeführte Oper Antigone an die Wiener Kammeroper