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ParisHans van Manen & Dutch National Ballet
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Beethoven, Bach, Britten, Piazzolla
Hans van Manen; Dutch National Ballet
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Beethoven, November, Various, Piazzolla
Hans van Manen; Mthuthuzeli November; Jiří Kylián; Dutch National Ballet; Olga Smirnova; Jacopo Tissi
New York CityDutch National Ballet

Adams, Benjamin, Chopin, Britten
Ted Brandsen; Wubkje Kuindersma; Jerome Robbins; Alexei Ratmansky; Hans van Manen; Dutch National Ballet; Olga Smirnova; Jacopo Tissi
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Stikhina and Clayton shine in DNO's uneven Maid of Orleans
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Director Dmitri Tcherniakov and a talented cast do everything to make Tchaikovsky’s opera work in Amsterdam, but problematic elements persist.
Collaborations and world premieres: Opera Forward Festival
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Two world premieres at Dutch National Opera speak to what have traditionally been two separate audiences: the audience within the opera house and the one without.
Venables We Are the Lucky Ones is the time to be alive at DNO
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Inspired by Annie Ernaux’s The Years, Philip Venables’ new opera widens the canvas to take in the whole of Europe’s postwar generation.
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AmsterdamBoris GodunovNew production
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Vasily Petrenko; Kirill Serebrennikov; Dutch National Opera; Nadia Kucher; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Elena Stikhina on Salzburg, Tosca and the reality of life as a singer
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Soprano Elena Stikhina is in demand at the world's major opera houses. Isabella Steppan meets her in Salzburg to discuss the role of Tosca – which she is currently singing in Amsterdam and Vienna – and the reality of life as an opera singer.
Dreams and documentaries: opera world premieres
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We preview nine major new operas on stage this season in Europe, from composers including Unsuk Chin, Rebecca Saunders, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Philip Venables and Toshio Hosokawa.
State of the (operatic) union: notes from Opera Europa
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Audiences, energy prices, politics, sustainability... With nearly 400 opera executives assembled in Copenhagen, the Opera Europa autumn conference was the ideal venue to take the temperature of the opera industry.
