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Alain Altinoglu; Vasily Barkhatov; La Monnaie | De Munt; Dmitry Matvienko; Zinovy Margolin; Olga Shaishmelashvili; Alexander Sivaev

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Britten: Mort à Venise
Edward Gardner; Vasily Barkhatov; Bayerische Staatsoper; Zinovy Margolin; Olga Shaishmelashvili; Alexander Sivaev; Bayerisches Staatsorchester
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Shostakovitch’s Lady Macbeth conquers La Scala on opening night

Sara Jakubiak (Katerina) and Najmiddin Mavlyanov (Sergey) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

Shostakovich's brutal tale of sex, murder and madness storms La Scala's opening night, with Riccardo Chailly leading his final season premiere as Music Director. 

A Norma cooking on medium at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Dmitry Korchak (Pollione) and Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Norma) © Bernd Uhlig
Despite excellent performances from Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Elmina Hasan, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's new production of Norma lacks a pinch of salt. 

Grigorian and Akhmetshina dazzle in a secular Norma

Asmik Grigorian (Norma) and Aigul Akhmetshina (Adalgisa) © Monika Rittershaus
In a week where Vienna welcomes two new productions of Bellini's Norma, MusikTheater an der Wien sets a high bar with Vasily Barkhatov's staging. 

From rags to riches through feathers and glitters

The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea brings us back to the very start of the ballet tradition with Jean-Philippe Rameau’s one act opera-ballet of 1748.

Death lurks: Aribert Reimann's L'Invisible

In L’Invisible, which had its première last weekend at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Aribert Reimann has condensed three plays by Maeterlinck into bite-size chunks that vanish before they can be savoured.

Gripping Staatstheater Wiesbaden Eugene Onegin

Director Vasily Barkhatov’s production of Eugene Onegin travels to Darmstadt.