Bachtrack logo

Performer: Eric Cutler

Live EventsSee more...

GrafeneggDie tote Stadt (The Dead City)Concert performance

Grafenegg Kulturbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City)
Axel Kober; Tonkünstler-Orchester; Eric Cutler; Camilla Nylund; Samuel Hasselhorn

SalzburgAriadne auf NaxosNew production

Listing filler
Strauss R.: Ariadne auf Naxos
Manfred Honeck; Ersan Mondtag; Henning Streck; Vienna Philharmonic

ViennaDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Listing filler
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Axel Kober; Keith Warner; Vienna State Opera; Boris Kudlička; Kaspar Glarner; John Bishop; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

ViennaDer fliegende Holländer

Listing filler
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
Pablo Heras-Casado; Christine Mielitz; Vienna State Opera; Stefan Mayer; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera; Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Latest reviewsSee more...

Revolutionary zeal gives way to tyranny in The Royal Opera’s Fidelio

Jennifer Davis (Leonore) © Tristram Kenton, 2024
This revival of Kratzer’s production forces the audience to confront where personal responsibility starts and stops for acting under a tyrannical regime, while bringing Beethoven’s only opera to life – with a few twists.
****1
Read more

Works of farewell: Mälkki at Musikfest Berlin

Susanna Mälkki conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin © Peter Adamik
An unusual double bill opens the new season at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, with Susanna Mälkki offering a moving take on Saariaho and Mahler.
****1
Read more

Chaos in the Underworld: Andriy Zholdak directs Fidelio at DNO

Jacquelyn Wagner (Leonore) © Monika Rittershaus | Dutch National Opera
The Ukrainian director's “revisioning” of Beethoven's only opera plunges it into an incoherent underworld in Amsterdam.
*1111
Read more

Thielemann bids farewell to Dresden with an excellent new FroSch

Camilla Nylund (The Empress) © Semperoper Dresden | Ludwig Olah
David Bösch directs a creative and thoughtful new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Semperoper in Christian Thielemann's final opera as Principal Conductor. 
*****
Read more

François Girard’s Holländer returns to the Met

Tomasz Konieczny (Holländer) and Elza van den Heever (Senta) © Ken Howard | Met Opera

Tomasz Konieczny, as the enigmatic mariner condemned to sail the seas forever, heads a superb cast in this Met Opera revival of François Girard’s murky production of Wagner’s early masterpiece.

****1
Read more

Homoki's Ring Cycle continues with Die Walküre at Opernhaus Zürich

Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan) and Camilla Nylund (Brünnhilde) © Monika Rittershaus
A stellar production of Die Walküre premieres in Zurich, not far from the location where Richard Wagner composed it. 
****1
Read more