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Jurowski completes his slow-burn LPO Ring cycle with Götterdämmerung
Vladimir Jurowski's six-year Ring with the LPO closes as the cycle began: a gleaming, golden ring with a black hole at its core.
A passionate Winter's Tale at Wexford Festival Opera
In a 70th anniversary season dedicated to adaptations of Shakespeare, this concert performance made a compelling case for Karl Goldmark's final opera.
Götterdämmerung: a truly fabulous end to the EIF Ring
The EIF’s cycle comes to a fabulous end with RSNO and Andrew Davis leading a luxury cast, Christine Goerke’s emotionally powerful Brünnhilde a highlight.
A compelling Parsifal from Victorian Opera in Melbourne
The Australian Youth Orchestra was full of poise and maturity and all the singing was impressive in Roger Hodgman's production.
Spectacular Gurrelieder revived at Dutch National Opera
An exemplary cast, an opulent orchestra and unforgettable images in Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder.
Nostalgia and neurosis as Die tote Stadt returns to the Semperoper after nearly a century
In a score that can be a Technicolor wallow, Jurowski’s sure sense of dramatic pulse and balance, encompassed the brash dance rhythms, religious grandeur, vivid tone painting and the extremes of dissonance.