En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Zinovy Margolin

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. 

The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea brings us back to the very start of the ballet tradition with Jean-Philippe Rameau’s one act opera-ballet of 1748.

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. 

Eifman Ballet is back in London with Boris Eifman's latest ballet, Up and Down 

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