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Beauty and the beast: Sciarrino's Venere e Adone premieres in Hamburg
What does opera in the 21st century look and sound like? Streets removed from anything Mozart, Verdi or Wagner would have recognised. But Salvatore Sciarrino is his own man.
A cauldron of confusion: Handel’s Belshazzar staged in Zürich
Lawrence Cummings conducts Zurich’s Orchestra La Scintilla in Handel’s oratorio-cum-opera, Belshazzar. The music was celestial; the staging was a bombastic mix of excess and vaudeville.
Hrůša conducts a flawed Don Giovanni in Bamberg
Christian Gerhaher’s experience in a role he knows well rescued an evening of mitigated pleasures.
Don Giovanni escapes the flames in Salzburg
According to director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Don Giovanni’s divine retribution for a life of pure evil and insatiable fornication is just more of the same.
Robert Carsen's legendary Dream returns to Aix
A trip down memory lane sends our man in Aix into raptures as Robert Carsen's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream comes home to Provence.
The Rake’s Progress: neoclassical whimsy at The Met
A bearded lady and her taxidermied shark are just two eccentric characters livening up Stravinsky’s 1951 moral fable The Rake’s Progress, though the shark is unique to Jonathan Miller’s revived production.