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The brainchild of opera director Monique Wagemakers, choreographer Nanine Linning and visual artist Lonneke Gordijn, this Orfeo by Nederlandse Reisopera is a thing of infinite beauty.

Programming Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music is quite a daring move in a country with no real tradition in musical. This production by Nederlands Reisopera shows that fortune favours the bold.

A fine cast convinces in Dutch Reisopera's new Tosca, staged in a dystopian police state.

Director Jo Davies' staging of Mozart’s dramma giocoso for Nederlandse Reisopera is a high-spirited  affair packed with humour, where the emphasis is decidedly more on giocoso than on the dramma.

The Nederlandse Reisopera celebrates Ariadne auf Naxos’centennial with a superb new production directed by Laurence Dale which looks as laving as it is pleasing to the ear.

Louis Andriessen’s new opera is a masterly expedition into the grand and grotesque mind of Athanasius Kircher, polymath and fantastist, but it is hampered by a clumsy libretto.

In the Nederlandse Reisopera's Così fan tutte, the team of young soloists and the Orkest van het Oosten conducted by Arnaud Oosterbaum give a musically rewarding performance that compensates for an unconvincing stage direction.

An all-Dutch Verdi Requiem with soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek makes a heartfelt case for music as an antidote to war.

In a ravishing and affectingly sung production, Floris Visser re-imagines the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as the efforts of a grieving psyche trying to heal its devastating wounds.

Talented young soloists and conductor Benjamin Levy's lithe way with Bizet's melodies make for a musically satisfying Pearl Fishers at the Royal Carré in Amsterdam.

A winning young cast discovers that all's not well that ends well in the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century’s virtuosic Così fan tutte at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam.

Stichting Internationale Opera Producties presents a romantic production of Puccini’s La bohème with the State Opera of Plovdiv.

Béjart Ballet Lausanne dances Maurice Béjarts masterpiece Bolero, preceded by an enchanting performance of Light. In Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam.

Maurice Béjart honours Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Freddie Mercury and Gianni Versace in Ballet For Life, at the Royal Theater Carré, Amsterdam.