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TokyoDas Buch mit sieben Siegeln
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Schmidt: Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo; Fabio Luisi; Michael Laurenz; David Steffens; Miho Sakoda; Asami Fujii
BerlinDie Entführung aus dem SerailNew production
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem)
Thomas Guggeis; Andrea Moses; Staatsoper Berlin; Raimund Bauer; Anja Rabes; Staatskapelle Berlin; Staatsopernchor Berlin
TorontoMahler’s Eighth
Mahler: Symphony no. 8 in E flat major "Symphony of a Thousand"
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Gustavo Gimeno; Elisabeth Teige; Sarah Wegener; Sarah Dufresne; Karen Cargill
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A spectacular Freischütz in Bregenz
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At the Bregenz Festival, director Philpp Stölzl gives us a radical updating of the classic, with an interpretation many miles away from Weber.
A hole in the heart: Salzburg Festival’s new Don Giovanni
The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving.
Song of Destiny: Enescu's Oedipe at the Salzburg Festival
Salzburg's new staging of Enescu's operatic epic Oedipe is a visual and musical triumph.
On the rocks: An ice-cold Salome in Salzburg
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An astonishing performance by Asmik Grigorian is central to the Italian director's disturbing reading of a disturbing opera.
Sex and violence in the ghetto: Pique Dame
Oper Stuttgart’s new production of The Queen of Spades (Pique-Dame) pushes a directorial tendency to update opera to a modern setting to an extreme.
An uncluttered Figaro at the Volksoper
Movable walls, some adorned with Baroque frescoes, partition the stage in ways that remind the viewer of the easy proximity of the masters and servants' quarters in Almaviva's estate.