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MilanFaustNouvelle production

Alex Esposito (Méphistophélès) and Vittorio Grigolo (Faust) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Gounod: Faust
Daniele Rustioni; Johannes Erath; Teatro alla Scala; Heike Scheele; Gesine Völlm; Fabio Antoci; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Francfort-sur-le-MainAlcina

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Haendel: Alcina
Julia Jones; Johannes Erath; Oper Frankfurt; Kaspar Glarner; Joachim Klein; Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

BerlinManon LescautNouvelle production

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Bertrand de Billy; Johannes Erath; Staatsoper Berlin; Kaspar Glarner; Birgit Wentsch; Olaf Freese; Staatskapelle Berlin

Francfort-sur-le-MainDie Walküre

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Wagner: La Walkyrie (Die Walküre)
Thomas Guggeis; Vera Nemirova; Oper Frankfurt; Jens Kilian; Ingeborg Bernerth; Olaf Winter; Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Francfort-sur-le-MainDas Rheingold

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Wagner: L'Or du Rhin (Das Rheingold)
Thomas Guggeis; Vera Nemirova; Oper Frankfurt; Jens Kilian; Ingeborg Bernerth; Olaf Winter; Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

BerlinManon Lescaut

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Bertrand de Billy; Johannes Erath; Staatsoper Berlin; Kaspar Glarner; Birgit Wentsch; Olaf Freese; Staatskapelle Berlin
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Salvation, damnation and circus magic: Teatro alla Scala’s new Faust

Alex Esposito (Méphistophélès) and Vittorio Grigolo (Faust) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

The Teatro alla Scala closes its season with a visually audacious new production of Faust, directed by Johannes Erath, and driven by Daniele Rustioni’s fiery conducting. 

Tchaikovsky Noir: Mazeppa gets the gangster treatment in Frankfurt

Petr Sokolov (Mazeppa) and Nombulelo Yende (Mariya) © Xiomara Bender

The gritty realism of Matthew Wild’s updated production can’t quite save Tchaikovsky’s historic drama in its Frankfurt premiere. 

Waiting for Kurtág: Fin de partie receives Berlin premiere

Laurent Naouri (Hamm) © Monika Rittershaus
Director Johannes Erath and conductor Alexander Soddy bring György Kurtág's first and only opera to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, starting the year with a dash of Beckett.

Anastasia Bartoli a regal Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival

Anastasia Bartoli (Ermione) © Amati Bacciardi

The ROF presents a new production of Ermione, a title not often performed, with a star-studded cast including divo Juan Diego Flórez. 

Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor

Magdalena Anna Hofmann, Christine Schäfer and Klangforum Wien © Werner Kmetitsch
What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

Puccini and Bartók nightmares at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome

Il tabarro © Opera di Roma | Fabrizio Sansoni
Michele Mariotti and Johannes Erath lead us into the caverns of Il tabarro and Bluebeard’s Castle with two stories of violence against women 
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MilanFaustNouvelle production

Alex Esposito (Méphistophélès) and Vittorio Grigolo (Faust) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Gounod: Faust
Daniele Rustioni; Johannes Erath; Teatro alla Scala; Heike Scheele; Gesine Völlm; Fabio Antoci; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala