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MadridJanácek - Katia KabanováNew production

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Janáček: Kátya Kabanová
Gustavo Gimeno; Christof Loy; Teatro Real; Étienne Pluss; Robby Duiveman; Fabrice Kebour; Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

ViennaStaatskapelle Dresden

Musikverein Wien
Beethoven
Staatskapelle Dresden; Daniele Gatti; Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien; Sara Blanch; Christa Mayer; Bernard Richter

BayreuthBeethoven Symphony no. 9

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Wagner, Beethoven
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Christian Thielemann; Elza van den Heever; Christa Mayer; Piotr Beczała; Georg Zeppenfeld

BayreuthDas RheingoldNew production

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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Christian Thielemann; Marcus Lobbes; Wolf Gutjahr; Pia Maria Mackert; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Nils Corte

BayreuthSiegfriedNew production

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Wagner: Siegfried
Christian Thielemann; Marcus Lobbes; Wolf Gutjahr; Pia Maria Mackert; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Nils Corte

BayreuthGötterdämmerungNew production

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Christian Thielemann; Marcus Lobbes; Wolf Gutjahr; Pia Maria Mackert; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Bayreuth Festival Chorus
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The Ring returns to the Rhine: Götterdämmerung at La Scala

Camilla Nylund (Brünnhilde) and Klaus Florian Vogt (Siegfried) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Under Alexander Soddy’s powerful conducting and Sir David McVicar’s dark, evocative staging, the Ring finds a searing conclusion, anchored by a powerful Brünnhilde from Camilla Nylund, as the world burns.
*****
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Klaus Florian Vogt a successful Siegfried at La Scala

Klaus Florian Vogt (Siegfried) and Camilla Nylund (Brünnhilde) © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

McVicar’s most successful Ring chapter yet: Siegfried convinces with beautiful imagery and a stellar cast, with Alexander Soddy at the baton.

****1
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A new Ring in Milan! Das Rheingold shines at La Scala

Ólafur Sigurdarson (Alberich), Andrea Carroll, Svetlina Stoyanova and Virginie Verrez (Rhinemaidens) © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

La Scala presents a new production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece by David McVicar with a superb cast under the considerate baton of Simone Young.

****1
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Thielemann bids farewell to Dresden with an excellent new FroSch

Camilla Nylund (The Empress) © Semperoper Dresden | Ludwig Olah
David Bösch directs a creative and thoughtful new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Semperoper in Christian Thielemann's final opera as Principal Conductor. 
*****
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Season finale: a disappointing ending to Bayreuth's Götterdämmerung

Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele © Bayreuth Festspiele | Enrico Nawrath
Despite many perceptive details, Bayreuth's new Ring culminates in a rather damp squib of an ending.
***11
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From birth to death: Die Walküre gets some interesting plot twists

Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Hunding) and Christa Mayer (Fricka) © Bayreuth Festspiele | Enrico Nawrath
The plot thickens as "episode two" of Bayreuth's new Ring muddies the waters of Siegfried’s paternity and Wotan comes to regret his actions.
*****
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