Instrument: Acrobatics

At the Bregenz Festival, director Philpp Stölzl gives us a radical updating of the classic, with an interpretation many miles away from Weber.

A world premiere of an opera by Philip Glass is bound to draw attention... especially when many of its performers are members of a circus troupe. 

Vladimir Jurowski led the LPO in a thoughtful and though-provoking concert that paired Beethoven's only full-length ballet, the joyous and energetic Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus with Stravinsky's cool and melancholy Orpheus.

La gazza ladra celebrates its 200th anniversary with a new production at La Scala, an earthbound effort from director Gabriele Salvatores, but it was Riccardo Chailly who drew the wrath of sections of the Milanese audience. 

Could this be the most perfect fusion of music and visuals known to mankind!?

Le metteur en scène signe un maelstrom débridé, volontiers fantasque, où fusionnent l’art et le sport, les performances vocale et athlétique, le chant et la danse.

Alte Musik im neuen Style brachte Fetish Baroque in die Grazer Helmut-Liste-Halle; und begeisterte damit das Publikum.