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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.
Bayreuth's “closed system” of Tannhäuser production
Art installation of a biogas factory is the setting for a mostly undistinguished musical performance.