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Death Becomes Him: Haas' Thomas gets a new staging in Berlin

Jaka Mihelač (Thomas) and actor (Matthias) © Gianmarco Bresadola
In a new production for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, director Barbora Horáková and conductor Max Renne guide the audience through Georg Friedrich Haas' deep reflection on death. 

No man is an island: Oscar Strasnoy's Robinson premieres in Berlin

Stephan Klemm (Robinson Crusoe) © Gianmarco Bresadola
Commissioned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Oscar Strasnoy and Sigrid Behrens' new chamber opera Robinson turns its source into an immersive meditation on modern isolation and loneliness.

Straussian pastoral: Daphne at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Vera-Lotte Boecker (Daphne) © Monika Rittershaus
Romeo Castellucci's new production of Daphne for the Staatsoper reflects on our relationship with nature, subverting the perspective of Richard Strauss' opera.

Spinning the Wheel of Fortune: Vivaldi's Il Giustino in Berlin

Raffaele Pe (Anastasio) © Matthias Baus
A new production of Vivaldi's Byzantine opera Il Giustino charms Berlin, thanks to René Jacobs' exemplary conducting and a top-level cast led by Christophe Dumaux.

Regietheater reigns supreme in Calixto Bieito's Berlin Lohengrin

Dressed in white, with an origami swan in his hand, Robert Alagna's Lohengrin is less a Grail knight than an absent-minded daydreamer.

Why, why, why Dalila? More disappointment at Unter den Linden

Brandon Jovanovich (Samson) and Elīna Garanča (Dalila) © Matthias Baus
Daniel Barenboim conducts an underwhelming cast in the Staatsoper's new Samson et Dalila, and Argentinian director Damián Szifron's operatic debut is stale and cliché-ridden.