Performer: Enrico Dovico

Tradition and modernity are a mismatch in this uneven production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece.

The National Theater opens the new opera season with a gripping, thought-provoking production of Bellini's romantic tragedy.

Since 2013 marks a Verdi anniversary, the Viennese have been treated to two new productions of Il trovatore: Philipp Stölzl’s pacey, offbeat deconstruction that will open in Berlin next week, and this Volksoper co-production with the Theater Bonn where the curtain goes down after every scene.