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HamburgParsifal [performances from 13 March to 19 April cancelled]
Wagner: Parsifal
Kent Nagano; Achim Freyer; Hamburg State Opera; Werner Van Mechelen; Kwangchul Youn
HamburgFidelio
Beethoven: Fidelio
Kent Nagano; Georges Delnon; Hamburg State Opera; Kaspar Zwimpfer; Lydia Kirchleitner; Daniel Behle; Kartal Karagedik
BayreuthTannhäuser
Wagner: Tannhäuser
Axel Kober; Tobias Kratzer; Rainer Sellmaier; Lise Davidsen; Ekaterina Gubanova
BayreuthLohengrin
Wagner: Lohengrin
Christian Thielemann; Yuval Sharon; Axel Kober; Rosa Loy; Neo Rauch; Andreas Schager
BayreuthGötterdämmerungNew production
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Pietari Inkinen; Valentin Schwarz; Andrea Cozzi; Andy Besuch; Stephen Gould; Iréne Theorin
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Olfactory and ocular obfuscation: The Nose in Hamburg
Kent Nagano and the forces of Staatsoper Hamburg launch their new season with a production of Shostakovich's very first opera in which the ears are beguiled but the eyes are not.
An immersive auto-da-fé: Konwitschny's Don Carlos sizzles
From stylised 16th-century dress to a 1970s sitcom ballet, Konwitschny's Staatsoper staging is full of brilliantly inventive touches, splendidly realised in this excellently sung revival.
Hamburg's Die Tote Stadt: excellent singing but muddled staging
Hamburg's revival of a 2015 production is a musical success, but the director's concepts are sometimes too dense to tell a straightforward story.
Are they all like that? Staatsoper Hamburg's new Così
Hamburg State Opera launches its new season with a visually overpowering but musically satisfying Così fan tutte.
Attila Jun stars in Bayreuth's Götterdämmerung
Attila Jun's outstanding Hagen and Catherine Foster's sublime Brünnhilde light up the last episode of Frank Castorf's puzzling Ring.
