En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Boaz Daniel

Stefan Blunier lideró una poderosa versión de Elektra que, brillante en lo orquestal y lo vocal, puso en pie a un público infundido por la intensidad del drama.

A pleasurable evening of surprises in Marco Arturo Marelli’s Turandot.

Mit Piotr Beczała in der Titelrolle und Linda Watson als Ortrud ist eben auch manchmal das Unperfekte großartig.

In der altbewährten Zeffirelli-Inszenierung glänzt vor allem Maria Nazarova als Musetta.

Hundert Jahre nach der Weltpremiere von Il trittico gelingt der Volksoper Wien ein würdiger Tribut an Puccinis Werk.

Bei ihrem Jubiläum setzen die Münchner Philharmoniker unter der Leitung von Valery Gergiev Mahlers monumentale Achte Symphonie aufs Programm.

Wagner is a rare bird in Perth; the second *Tristan und Isolde* in 12 years worth the wait, no less for being a concert performance, and for bringing Skelton's masterful interpretation to an Australian audience

As part of the annual Wagner festival in the Hungarian capital, Peter Seiffert and Allison Oakes star as the doomed lovers.

A passionless staging of Wagner's masterpiece throws cold water on Barenboim's fiery conducting at the Staatsoper.

In the city of Freud there is nothing like a bit of family drama to put one in the mood for a great season of opera!

Kristine Opolais may not pass so easily for an oriental 15 year old, but her Cio-Cio San deftly avoids Titipu stereotypes.

Staatsoper Berlin's Götterdämmerung featured memorable vocal performances from Iréne Theorin and Andreas Schager, with Daniel Barenboim and his orchestra providing the rest of the drama.

Wien an Ostern ist ohne das Bühnenweihfestspiel Richard Wagners nicht denkbar, und die langjährige Produktion kann auch in diesem Jahr begeistern.

The applause and screams at the premiere were raucously frenetic – and while the hysteria seemed a bit exaggerated, an energetically positive reception was completely justified.

Naives Mädchen, berechnendes Luder, Vamp und Todgeweihte: Diana Damrau überzeugt als Manon in der ästhetischen und klugen Inszenierung von Andrei Serban.

Klaus Florian Vogt’s Florestan redeems an otherwise disappointing Fidelio in Otto Schenk's timeless production.

A performance of Wagner’s epic Tristan und Isolde, a testimony for all-enduring love, is a welcome event anywhere in the world. 

Sir Simon Rattle concludes the Ring Cycle in Vienna with a detailed and intricate reading of the opera with an excellent cast.

Vienna Staatsoper revived Wagner's Ring Cycle with a splendid orchestral performance of Das Rheingold led by Sir Simon Rattle.

Tonight's setting of Die Soldaten in a WWI stable is so sordid you can almost feel the rats gnawing. Alvis Hermanis was right to warn in a newspaper interview that we would leave the theatre feeling shocked.

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West, in its new production by Marco Arturo Marelli, features excellent singing from top to bottom, tight orchestral playing, beautiful lighting, and a decisive lack of cowboys, saloons and other “Wild West” clichés. Set in a modern-day mining village in the middle of somewhere vast and gorgeous, the production focuses on the social interplay and struggles of the miners.

When most of us feel like we’re getting a little stale with a piece of work we’re doing – when the thoughts, words or ideas are drying up – we stop for a coffee, stretch our legs, or do a bit of internet browsing. When Richard Wagner realised inspiration was running low for Siegfried, he decided to have a break from it too.

The German thinker Theodor Adorno once wrote that a musical setting of Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck, considered in its own literary right a masterpiece, may well have proved redundant.