Artiste: Dietrich Hilsdorf

In der Meininger Musikaliensammlung wiederentdeckt: am Staatstheater Meiningen wird das von Domenico Sarro vertonte erste Libretto von Pietro Metastasio zum umjubelten Premierenerfolg.

Darmstadt's Flying Dutchman was a gripping Romantic ghost story with a stong Senta in Astrid Weber. 

Hindemith's opera, based on the life and theories of Johannes Kepler, is impressively realised by the Landestheater

A well-sung revival of a witty and supremely theatrical production of Strauss’ operatic exposé.

Frederick Loewes My Fair Lady im englischen Original mit anspruchsvollem Bild an der Oper Köln.

Since 2013 marks a Verdi anniversary, the Viennese have been treated to two new productions of Il trovatore: Philipp Stölzl’s pacey, offbeat deconstruction that will open in Berlin next week, and this Volksoper co-production with the Theater Bonn where the curtain goes down after every scene.