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LucerneGötterdämmerungConcert performance

© Priska Ketterer | Lucerne Festival
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Kent Nagano; Dresden Festival Orchestra; Dresden Festival Choir of the Richard Wagner Academy; Young Woo Kim; Åsa Jäger

ParisLe Crépuscule des dieuxConcert performance

© Antonine Saito
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Kent Nagano; Dresden Festival Orchestra; Dresden Festival Choir of the Richard Wagner Academy; Young Woo Kim; Åsa Jäger

ParisDas Rheingold

© Mark Allan
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Gianandrea Noseda; Orchester der Oper Zürich; Michael Volle; Klaus Florian Vogt; Christopher Purves

ParisGötterdämmerung

© Daniel Auf der Mauer
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Gianandrea Noseda; Orchester der Oper Zürich; Zurich Opera Chorus; Klaus Florian Vogt; Camilla Nylund
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Three Peters for the price of one: Lortzing’s Zar und Zimmermann

Zar und Zimmermann at Deutsche Oper Berlin © Thomas Aurin
Martin G Berger’s new production of Zar und Zimmermann eases the Deutsche Oper Berlin into the summer break, with mixed results.
***11
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An empty glitter bomb: Aschenbrödels Traum at the Volksoper Wien

Daniel Schmutzhard (Johann Strauss) and Juliette Khalil (Ida Grünwald) © Marco Sommer | Volksoper Wien
A dizzying premise from Martina Eisenreich and Axel Ranisch, loosely drawing on Johann Strauss II’s unfinished ballet Aschenbrödel, which tries to be everything, all at once. 
***11
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Death, interrupted: KaiserRequiem moves at the Volksoper

Seiyoung Kim (Harlequin), Josef Wagner (Death), Wallis Giunta and Marta Schiumarini (Drummer) © Ashley Taylor
Omer Meir Wellber’s Mozart-Ullmann mash-up sounds like a terrible idea, but absolutely hits the mark. 
****1
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Pre-Baroque rarity for a grand season opening at Theater an der Wien

A superlative cast led by Annett Fritsch and Cyril Auvity dazzle in Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s “musical drama” in a brilliant production by Robert Carsen. 

*****
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A stylish Fledermaus lifts spirits in Tokyo

A welcome touch of Austrian end of year festivities in Tokyo as Heinz Zednik's popular production of Die Fledermaus is revived. 
****1
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Weber's Freischütz minus the magic at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

A disappointing staging of Weber's supernatural opera by Compagnie 14:20 in Paris
**111
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