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Janáček: Kátya Kabanová
Simone Young; Christoph Marthaler; Opéra national de Paris; Aliisa Neige Barrière; Anna Viebrock; Olaf Winter
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Chiaroscuro extinguished: a self-indulgent Poppea in Copenhagen
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Christoph Marthaler’s staging of Monteverdi’s Poppea for the Royal Danish Opera is a study in boredom.
New Meistersinger succeeds musically despite the muddled production
Set in a 1930s music school, Sergio Morabito, Jossi Wieler and Anna Viebrick's new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Deutsche Oper Berlin has some inspirational ideas but they often get in the way of the music.
Lear in Munich: brilliant performance, but lifelessly staged
A superb cast of singers is let down by Christoph Marthaler's cold, stilted staging as Reimann's Lear returns to its birthplace.
Gimadieva's dark coloratura impresses in La sonnambula
Seven years after their production was voted as “production of the year” at Oper Stuttgart, Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito's La sonnambula opens in Berlin.
Sex and violence in the ghetto: Pique Dame
Oper Stuttgart’s new production of The Queen of Spades (Pique-Dame) pushes a directorial tendency to update opera to a modern setting to an extreme.
From femme fatale to angel: Lulu in Hamburg
An uncompromising approach to the unfinished score of Berg's opera results in a compelling musical and dramatic interpretation.