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A thunderous end to the 2019 Budapest Ring

A Ring cycle of sustained excellence closes with telling contributions from Foster, Vinke and Pesendorfer in the three lead roles.
Reuter and Schöck turn up the heat in Die Walküre in Budapest

Six excellent singers bring out the best in Wagner's dramatic narrative, marred only by a Ride of the Valkyries that fails to convince.
Marek Janowski returns to Weber’s Euryanthe

Emily Magee was in glowingly refulgent voice as the 'damsel in distress', Euryanthe, in this concert performance of Weber's rarity.
Electric Elektra in Mannheim

A classic production of Strauss' searing operatic depiction of the House of Atreus is revived with a particularly accomplished cast and musical direction.
Bayreuth comes to the Ruhr for a new Tristan und Isolde

Catherine Foster returns, in the Ruhr, to the role of Isolde with Torsten Kerl in a new production of Tristan und Isolde .
Twilight zone: a stirring Bayreuth Götterdämmerung
Frank Castorf's controversial but supremely well-cast Ring cycle is provocative to the last.