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L'Opéra de Lyon a le vent en poupe, multipliant depuis quelques années les programmations audacieuses. Lever de rideau avec un Mefistofele déroutant, mis en scène par Àlex Ollé.

Cantatrices en tête, un casting vocal prestigieux (Radvanovsky, Rachvelishvili, Alvarez, Lucic) assure le succès du célèbre opéra de Giuseppe Verdi. La mise en scène d'Alex Ollé déçoit.

Un prologue-projection, une superbe lumière et une baguette hyper-énergique de Stefano Montanari. Mais quelle direction a pris le sens ?

Malgré une sombre mise en scène, c'est le plateau vocal qui brûle les planches de cet impressionnant Trovatore à l'Opéra Bastille.

Le Vaisseau fantôme démonté sur les quais du Rhône dans la nouvelle production de la compagnie barcelonaise Fura dels Baus : une scénographie qui marque les esprits. 

Alex Ollé transportiert Puccinis unsterbliche Liebesgeschichte mit einer modernen und packenden Inszenierung in das 21. Jahrhundert.

After 76 performances in 17 theatres and seven different productions, Quartett returns to La Scala in the original sgating by Àlex Ollé of La Fura dels Baus and the Milan audience is once more captivated.

Alex Ollé focuses in the princess's trauma to provide a back story for Puccini’s problematic last opera; Eri Nakamura captivates the New National Theatre audience.

Der himmlische Chor und das Orchester glänzen in Àlex Ollés Inszenierung, die der Musik szenisch nicht gerecht wird.

Àlex Ollé inszeniert ein alle Sinne überwaltigendes Fest für die Augen.

Despite a great cast led by Marina Rebeka, La Fura dels Baus's unambitious approach to the myth of Faust and Dan Ettinger's noisy conducting prevent a brighter season opening at the Teatro Real.

Un segundo reparto muy solvente encabezado por Ismael Jordi dieron vida a la propuesta escénica de Alex Ollé en una nueva producción en el Teatro Real de la ópera de Gounod Faust.

The 2011 Lyon production, with an excellent orchestral and vocal performance, brings an austerely moonlit version of Tristan und Isolde to Barcelona.

La Fura ofrece en este Holandés un espectáculo mayúsculo, de una superficialidad inteligente, acompañado por un elenco solvente y un foso con escaso sentido narrativo. 

After 120 years Puccini's La bohème returns where it was first produced on February 1, 1896. Ale Ollé, director fron "La Fura dels Baus" stages a modern rendition of the moving masterpiece.

Àlex Ollé and his Fura dels Baus team stage a spectacular looking Norma, the first new production of Bellini's opera at Covent Garden for nearly 30 years. 

Johan Reuter leads an all star cast in a revelatory performance of George Enescu's masterpiece, aided by spectacular La Fura dels Baus staging.

At the Dutch National Opera, director Àlex Ollé from La Fura dels Baus stages a dark and monochromatic Trovatore, in which the four stars shine.

Gounod's Faust returns after 45 years to the National Dutch Opera, and this new production directed by Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, lead by a fine cast and conducted by Marc Minkowski is nothing short of spectacular.

Àlex Ollé's harbour production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for Opera Australia is attractive and thought-provoking, with strong performances from Hiromi Omura and Georgy Vasiliev.

The world ended yesterday. Possibly. It probably didn’t, but the facts are still kind of fuzzy.György Ligeti’s only opera, Le grand macabre is a strange piece. The story is straightforward enough: Nekrotzar, a Death-like figure, travels around the world of Breughelland warning its citizens of impending doom – a giant comet will destroy Earth at midnight.

“I would ask what the management’s drama has in common with mine. The title? No. The poet? No. The period? No. The place? No. The characters? No.” This excerpt from Verdi’s legal proceedings against the management of San Carlo, who were trying to foist changes on Un Ballo in Maschera, came vividly to my mind last night at Sydney Opera House.

A first impression of Quartett, a 2011 chamber opera composed by Luca Francesconi and staged by Àlex Ollé (of the innovative Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus), may be that it presents an unapologetically modernist take on the Liaisons dangereuses story which will impenetrably hang together as some fearsomely Teutonic total artwork.