Performer: Calixto Bieito

The director drains the life out of an impassioned opera with a staging devoid of authenticity and ideas.

An unusual double bill pairing of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero opens at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. 

The iconoclastic Spanish director talks about a new production of Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina in Geneva – and the messy, anarchic, utopian struggle of directing opera.

The vast 2023–24 season at Budapest boast 41 different operas and 19 ballets – with new productions of Boris Godunov, Rusalka, ballets by Bartók, and a world premiere from Peter Eötvös.

The director of the Opéra de Paris looks back on his early assumption of his post and on how his institution has organised itself during the crisis, before outlining plans for the coming seasons.