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GrafeneggDie tote Stadt (The Dead City)Concert performance
Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City)
Axel Kober; Tonkünstler-Orchester; Eric Cutler; Camilla Nylund; Samuel Hasselhorn
ZurichTannhäuserNew production
Wagner: Tannhäuser
Tugan Sokhiev; Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson; Zurich Opera; Florian Lösche; Teresa Vergho; Martin Gebhardt; Orchester der Oper Zürich
SalzburgAriadne auf NaxosNew production
Strauss R.: Ariadne auf Naxos
Manfred Honeck; Ersan Mondtag; Henning Streck; Vienna Philharmonic
ViennaDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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
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
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Revolutionary zeal gives way to tyranny in The Royal Opera’s Fidelio
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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.
Works of farewell: Mälkki at Musikfest Berlin
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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.
Chaos in the Underworld: Andriy Zholdak directs Fidelio at DNO
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The Ukrainian director's “revisioning” of Beethoven's only opera plunges it into an incoherent underworld in Amsterdam.
Thielemann bids farewell to Dresden with an excellent new FroSch
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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.
François Girard’s Holländer returns to the Met
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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.
Homoki's Ring Cycle continues with Die Walküre at Opernhaus Zürich
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A stellar production of Die Walküre premieres in Zurich, not far from the location where Richard Wagner composed it.