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Verdi: La Forza del Destino (La Force du Destin)
Massimo Zanetti; Frank Castorf; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Aleksandar Denić; Adriana Braga Peretzki; Lothar Baumgarte; Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
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Soif de pouvoir et folie meurtrière : Macbeth à Anvers

La mise en scène de Michael Thalheimer va à l’essentiel dans Macbeth, dernière production du mandat d'Aviel Cahn à la tête de l’Opéra de Flandre.

A vintage Lucia dusted off for Spotti’s Deutsche Oper Berlin debut

Aigul Khismatullina (Lucia) © Bettina Stöß (2023)
A new run of performances for Filippo Sanjust’s 1980s staging of Lucia di Lammermoor suggests that the Deutsche Oper still needs to shake off its post-summer holiday torpor.

Decadence and decay: Asmik Grigorian leads a sensational Salome

Asmik Grigorian © LSO | Andy Paradise
Even locked behind a music stand, like a caged panther in a sleek black gown, Grigorian’s Salome bristles with dramatic energy in Barbican concert performance of Strauss’ “scherzo with a fatal conclusion”. 

Machtvakuum im Kreml: Mussorgskys Chowanschtschina in Genf

Chowanschtschina © Carole Parodi
Calixto Bieito inszeniert Mussorgskys unvollendete Oper als tödliches Machtgerangel verschiedener Gruppen. Bei der Gestaltung des Schlusses leistet er sich Freiheiten, die grenzwertig sind.

Penthouse decadence for a shattering new Salome in Geneva

Olesya Golovneva (Salome) © Grand Théâtre de Genève | Magali Dougados
The Grand Théâtre de Genève is certainly not risk-averse and Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó controversially translates the action to a penthouse bar in New York.

Warlikowski’s prison: From the House of the Dead in Rome

Štefan Margita (Filka) © Teatro dell'Opera di Roma | Fabrizio Sansoni
The Polish director comes to Italy for the first time to direct Janáček's last opera, with the young Belarusian Dmitry Matvienko  conducting.