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MunichSemele

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Handel: Semele
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Gesine Völlm; Michael Bauer; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

MunichOf One Blood

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Dean: Of One Blood
Markus Stenz; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Michael Bauer; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

MunichDoctor AtomicNew production

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Adams: Doctor Atomic
Gemma New; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Ursula Kudrna; Urs Schönebaum; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

MunichDoctor AtomicNew production

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Adams: Doctor Atomic
Gemma New; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Ursula Kudrna; Urs Schönebaum; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

San FranciscoSimon Boccanegra

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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Eun Sun Kim; Claus Guth; San Francisco Opera; Christian Schmidt; Wolfgang Göbbel; San Francisco Opera Orchestra

RomeLe nozze di Figaro

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian; Claus Guth; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Christian Schmidt; Olaf Winter; Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
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Semele at Dutch National Opera: myth, desire and fantasy

Elsa Benoit (Semele) © Bart Grietens

Guth’s Semele turns myth into a contemporary domestic drama, where desire becomes obsession and illusion consumes reality. Handel’s music remains the true engine, driven by a thrilling, physically intense ensemble.

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Claus Guth directs a tormented, harrowing new Salome at the Met

Elza van den Heever (Salome) © Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera
Claus Guth's new production at the Metropolitan Opera, originally seen at the Bolshoi in 2021, moves the action from biblical Judea to the era of the opera's composition. 
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Redemption Song: Jenůfa triumph signals a bright future for Hrůsa

Corinne Winters (Jenůfa) © ROH | Camilla Greenwell
Corinne Winters is phenomenal as the self-possessed Jenůfa in The Royal Opera's revival of Claus Guth's powerful staging. 
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An historical affair: Khovanshchina at the Staatsoper Berlin

George Gagnidze (Schaklovity) and Mika Kares (Prince Ivan Khovansky) © Monika Rittershaus
With Claus Guth directing and Simone Young on the podium, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's new production of Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina proves that the past isn't really past. 
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Davidsen and Stemme anchor an extraordinary Jenůfa in Chicago

Lise Davidsen (Jenůfa) and Nina Stemme (Kostelnička) © Michael Brosilow
Claus Guth's production foregrounds the regimented, repressive world that drives the plot of Janáček’s tragic masterpiece.
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A game of light and darkness: Don Carlo in Riga

Gómez Bohórquez (Jester) and Arnold Rutkowski (Don Carlo) © Kristaps Kalns | Latvian National Opera
Claus Guth's staging walks a line between atmosphere and audacity, in a powerful company achievement from Latvian National Opera.
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ParisLa bohèmeNew production

© Bernd Uhlig | OnP
Puccini: La bohème
Gustavo Dudamel; Claus Guth; Opéra national de Paris; Étienne Pluss; Eva Dessecker; Fabrice Kebour; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisRigoletto

© Monika Rittershaus | OnP
Verdi: Rigoletto
Nicola Luisotti; Claus Guth; Opéra national de Paris; Christian Schmidt; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris; Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris

Aix-en-ProvenceSamsonWorld premiere

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Rameau: Samson
Raphaël Pichon; Claus Guth; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Bertrand Couderc; Pygmalion
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Kith and kin: Brett Dean and family prepare Of One Blood

Brett Dean, Lotte Betts-Dean and Heather Betts © Roman Job
Brett Dean, Heather Betts and Lotte Betts-Dean sit down to discuss their work on Of One Blood, a new opera dramatising the lives of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots – affairs of the family all round.

International Opera Awards 2025 announced

Agnes Baltsa, Lifetime Achievement Award winner © GNO/Andreas Simopoulos
The legendary mezzo-soprano Agnes Baltsa received a standing ovation while collecting her Lifetime Achievement Award, while other awards went to artists and companies from around the globe.

How to sing infanticide: Karita Mattila on Jenůfa

Karita Mattila as the Kostelnička with Prague National Theatre Opera in Savonlinna, July 2024 © Jussi Selvenoinnen
The Finnish soprano doesn’t like the word evil. Her approach to singing villain roles is to find the humanity in the character – which is always there.