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A brilliant new Salome launches Zurich Opera's season
Andreas Homoki's staging takes full advantage of Hartmut Meyer’s utterly spectacular set, while Elena Stikhina sings the difficult title role to perfection.
Juan Diego Flórez successfully debuts as Rodolfo in Zurich's Bohème
In a reprise of Ole Anders Tandberg’s somewhat confused production, a solid cast performs a charming bohème, under the baton of Marco Armiliato.
A florid perversity: Barrie Kosky fires up Die Gezeichneten in Zurich
Barrie Kosky’s production of Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten (The Branded) is in keeping with what was long considered one of the early 20th century’s most scandalous works.
Mahagonny in Zurich: a tale of excess and depravity
The backstory doesn’t bode well: three fugitive criminals decide to found a city that will pander to society’s most vital needs: food, sex, warfare, and alcohol.
“Smile despite your sorrows”: Franz Lehár’s valuable lesson in Zurich
In a new production of Franz Lehár’s The Land of Smiles, the stoic Sou-Chong sets the melancholy tone of the operetta by singing “Smile despite your sorrows and a thousand.. aches and pains”.
Provocation as part of the package
Juan Diego Flórez stars as Goethe’s archetypal Romantic poet in Massenet's Werther in Zurich.