En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Michael Eder

Der Bühnenbildner und Regisseur Ben Baur inszeniert Puccinis Oper La bohème als das, was sie ist: ein intimes und emotionales Bühnenspiel.

Despite this mis-en-scene’s lack of intensity, this Siegfried closed the 2015 season of the Teatro Massimo with an outstanding musical performance.

The lights dimmed and an announcer explained that following the destruction of earth’s ecosystem, there had been a scramble to rocket bases and a rush to transport surviving life to the nearest planet, Mars.

It is customary in German-speaking countries to perform Wagner’s Parsifal on Good Friday, so it was quite a bold move for the Semperoper in Dresden to put on Tannhäuser instead, especially in Peter Konwitschny’s strongly anti-Christian production.